Kinda funny to see someone casually mention a roleplaying forum. That's what I run and it got 10x traffic overnight from AI bots.
Made it when I was a teenager and got stuck running it the rest of my life.
Of course, the bots go super deep into the site and bust your cache.
you'd be within your right to serve the bots fake gibberish data.
Maybe they'll crawl less when it starts damaging models.
That's only a stopgap measure, eventually they'll realize what's happening and use distributed IPs and fake user agents to look like normal users. The Tencent and Bytedance scrapers are already doing this.