- which one is to stop you from hammering small servers with hundreds simultaneous connections?

- why don't you just respect existing robots.txt that apply to you already?

- does every LLM scraper seriously think the onus to opt out from the EVERY SINGLE SCRAPER is on the webmasters/owners?

>* - why don't you just respect existing robots.txt that apply to you already?*

>* - does every LLM scraper seriously think the onus to opt out from the EVERY SINGLE SCRAPER is on the webmasters/owners?*

I see value in asking explicitly, but let’s be real here: you know the answers. They feel entitled to vacuum up everything visible, any way they feel like, for some ratio of profit to thinking they’re reshaping humanity for the better. The opt-outs are ceremonial procedures to convince people (including themselves,) that people are actually volunteering this data. They don’t give a shit about you, your creative output, you life’s work, your server performance and bandwidth, or anything else beyond stuffing the great data pig.