Something others haven’t touched on is the burden all the scrapers are putting on small websites and forums.

Lots of niche/hobbyist site runners have repeatedly talked about how the scrapers inefficiently scrape the same pages, images, and files endlessly. Until they crash the site, run them out of bandwidth, or run up their bills till they cant afford to host a site they’ve been running for many years before this nonsense.

All in the futile pursuit of more to dump into the machine because of the belief if they just had more data all the issues with the models would finally be solved.