> I don't think any one of those billion dollar companies are gonna send me a dollar to help pay for my electricity, internet or replacement drives when they fail, despite them benefiting from all those things.<p>This facet of AI scrapers is not mentioned often enough, and is common with email advertising: externalizing part of the cost to those being scraped or advertised to.
I absolutely love the AI labyrinth Cloudflare implemented recently. Wasting their time and resources and feeding them more and more garbage. Wonderful.