and how often are those 6M pages changing? how often are those bots finding anything new? why are the bot makers not noticing no difference and just slowing the request down for essentially stale content to them
Every run is basically a fresh run, no state stored, every page is just feed into the machine a new. At least that's my theory.
The AI companies need a full copy of your page, every time they retrain a model. Now they could store that in their own datacenters, but that's a full copy of the internet, in a market where storage costs are already pretty high. So instead, they just externalize the storage cost. If you run a website, a public Gitlab instance, Forgejo, a wiki, a forum, whatever, you basically functions as free offsite storage for the AI companies.
1) https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali...