> I don't think any one of those billion dollar companies are gonna send me a dollar to help pay for my electricity, internet or replacement drives when they fail, despite them benefiting from all those things.

This facet of AI scrapers is not mentioned often enough, and is common with email advertising: externalizing part of the cost to those being scraped or advertised to.

I absolutely love the AI labyrinth Cloudflare implemented recently. Wasting their time and resources and feeding them more and more garbage. Wonderful.