Hey Blue: I know you've expressed frustration with the AI scrapers ignoring your robots.txt.
Did you see this new, free tool from CloudFlare? It's designed to block all the AI scrapers.
Declaring Your AIndependenceI haven't implemented it myself yet (but I'll give it a go today). But I use CloudFlare extensively, and the tools and services they provide for free are pretty useful and dependable.
I'm responding here because of your "too busy
stealing learning" bit.