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Sufficiently aggressive and inconsiderate scraping is indistinguishable from a DDOS attack.

No scraper seeks to deny the service it needs.

And no responsible site operator unable to distinguish should claim DDOS.

No well behaved scraper at least.

No any scraper seeks.

Scrapers because DDOS implies that it's malicious rather than accidental and there's no reason to think that.

Right, so probably the site should not be claiming "It is a DDOS attack".

A sufficiently stupid and egregious AI scraper is indistinguishable from a DDOS attack.

Edit: Fabian2k was ten seconds ahead. Damn!