There's a difference (IMHO) between a bot scraper (like the Meta bot) bypassing blocks for them to train their models on, and when I direct my LLM to go "research the likelyhood of Micron GDDR6 chip i...
i don't, really. other people running websites don't have an obligation to let me on them, or let me aim a barely-supervised request cannon at them. the scale is certainly smaller when a single person does it as opposed to it being an institutionalized feature of an app that's being pushed to billions of people. i think it's an extremely bad precedent for any kind of halfway humane social system to work for the standard to become "i have every right to do whatever i want and everyone else has to double the cost of whatever they do so that i can do it"