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There are a lot of dumb questions, and I pose all of them to Claude. There's no infrastructure in place for this, but I would support some business model where LLM-of-choice compensates website operators for resources consumed by my super dumb questions. Like how content creators get paid when I watch with a YouTube Premium subscription. I doubt this is practical in practice.

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For me it looks more like out of the control bots than average requests. For example a few days ago I blocked a few bots. Google was about 600 requests in 24 hours. Bing 1500, Facebook is mostly blocked right now, Claude with 3 different bot types was about 100k requests in the same time.

There is no reason to query all my sub-sites, it's like a search engine with way to many theoretical pages.

Facebook also did aggressively, daily indexing of way to many pages, using large IP ranges until I blocked it. I get like one user per week from them, no idea what they want.

And bing, I learned, "simply" needs hard enforced rate limits it kinda learns to agree on.

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