We have very few tools to protect ourselves here, and need to make the most of the ones we have.
Personally, I think that such efforts are pointless -- all it takes is one crawler to make it through your defenses and you may as well have not done a thing. The alternative, though, is to remove your sites from the open web entirely. Either way, Commmon Crawl needs to be excluded if you want to avoid your stuff being used to train AI.
https://apnews.com/article/dungeons-dragons-ai-artificial-in...
a variety of stakeholders involved - not just "individuals doing pointless things" .. new tech is making winners and losers right now.
Honestly, it seems like we've been here before. I hope y'all have got your right-click-disable scripts in place too.
It's going to be an interesting half-decade.