There are 3 major kinds of bots currently flooding the internet:
AI scrapers, malicious scrapers, and unchecked automations/scrapers.
Tens of thousands of new scrapers have cropped up over the past few months, accidentally DDoSing* website after website in their wake.
*(Distributed Denial of Service)The trend is to consider AI Bots as welcome
"they help with getting my website or content noticed on AI Search"And whilst this is certainly true to some extent, the reality is less appealing.
Take a look at your hosting cPanel - Visitors / or Resource Usage to see the problem for yourself...!Aggressive AI bots are scraping content at an unprecedented rate, causing: