My first impression is that news companies don't want their content scraped for copyright reasons, and roundaboutly scapegoating AI

As a website owner I hate the fact that more than 90% of my traffic is now bots, fake bots, bots masquerading as real visitors and real visitors who try try to use my platform to spam others.

Now AI companies are using residential proxies to get around the obvious countermeasures, I have resorted to blocking all countries that are not my target audience.

It really sucks. The internet is terminally ill.