> There's no such distinct thing as a scraper--and if your mental model tries to distinguish between a scraper and a human user, you're going to be disappointed.

I disagree. If your mental model doesn't allow conceptualizing (abusive) scrapers, it is too simplicistic to be useful to understand and deal with reality.

But I'd like to re-state the frame / the concern: it's not about any bot or any scraper, it is about the despicable behavior of LLM providers and their awful scrappers.

I'm personally fine with bots accessing my web servers, there are many legitimate use cases for this.

> But if you really want to actually limit access to the content, you shouldn't be publishing that content publicly.

It is not about denying access to the content to some and allowing access to others.

It is about having to deal with abuses.

Is a world in which people stop sharing their work publicly because of these abuses desirable? Hell no.