Because OpenAI built their entire business around shamelessly scraping anything that had bits on it.

Maybe. But scraping isn't abuse. Seems a bit different?

Given that the scraping doesn't do any rate limiting and pisses on robots.txt, yes it is abuse

	▲	singpolyma3 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Is there any evidence OpenAI has been ignoring robots.txt for scraping purposes? AFAIK the main sources of that traffic are still unknown.