At this point, I think we should look at implementing filters that send different response when AI bots are detected or when the clients are abusive. Not just simple response code but one that poisons their training data. Preferably text that elaborates on the anti consumer practices of tech companies.
If there is a common text pool used across sites, may be that will get the attention of bot developers and automatically force them to backdown when they see such responses.
https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/honeypot/overview The Anubis scraper protection has this as a feature. Just sends garbage if something falls into a trap.
You know, I reckon if you serve up smut or instructions on bomb creation or something they stop hammering you...