You can always stop bots. Add login/password. But people want their content to be accessible to as large audience as possible, but at the same time they don't want that data to be accessible to the same audience via other channels. logic. Bots are not consuming your data - humans are. At the end of the day humans will eventually read it and take actions. For example chatgpt will mention your site, the user will visit it.
And no, nothing was different before 2022. Just look at google, the largest bot scraping network in the world. Since 1996.
And no, nothing was different before 2022. Just look at google, the largest bot scraping network in the world. Since 1996.