Some people are worried about the volume, but at worst your site is down for a while. Unless you're on serverless, but in that case you would've had to be worried about hackers before AI crawlers existed.
If it's IP theft, if someone's motivated enough to get past Cloudflare/Anubis, you would've had to worry about them before AI crawlers existed too.
> Especially when there's services/tools like Cloudflare and Anubis that solve that.
They don't solve it. They offer some help, but it's far from good enough.
The exact reason why I don't want my stuff included isn't really relevant to the topic, honestly ("I don't like it" is plenty sufficient reason, after all), but I will say there are multiple reasons. The main issue is that if it happens, there's no way to correct for that.
IP violation is one of them, but not the main one -- but it does illustrate the point: in the case of more traditional IP "theft", there is technically a way to resolve the problem after it happens. Not so with genAI crawlers.
