this will be the end of the open internet. Expect login walls and subscriptions everywhere.
Rising interest rates are doing that, not AI.
The open Internet is based on a fundamental principal that people like you forget over and over.
Information should be free and plentiful, and making it free and plentiful benefits the common person. Data and scraping are essential parts of that common good.
The Internet will survive. The one you think exists - where you get to mooch and demand payment - never existed.
... Fair point