There’s no legal distinction between what a search engine scraper does and what an AI scraper does. They’re literally the same exact fucking thing.

Google scrapes a site and puts it in their database.

An AI company scrapes a site and puts it in their database.

You’re trying to make a distinction based on what happens after the data has been collected and completely ignoring the fact that search engine scrapers and AI scrapers are performing the same activity.

In fact it’s everyone’s right to scrape the Internet! Go, scrape it! Whether it’s Google or AI companies or Joe Schmoe. Scraping is legal and a perfectly normal activity. Just because some AI scrapers are fucking up has no bearing on whether or not the activity of scraping is bad/good.

We learned this lesson in the 90s: If you don’t want someone scraping your stuff don’t put it on the fucking Internet!