[anonn77]

The main difference here is that these AI bots are operating with an entirely different agenda. The ethics remain to be seen and the jury is out as to whether they will benefit the user they way the promise they will.

Also on a whole different scale and instead of supplementing the web content it’s devaluing it to a degree.

[dekhn]

The "ai bots" aren't operating with an agenda- at least as far as we can tell now, training algorithms and their scrapers do not have agency.

Basically you're assuming the agenda of the operator, saying "that's bad an shouldn't be allowed". But I see the web- except for things specifically labelled with standard copyright disclaimers- as effectively a large corpus of publicly available data, "in the market square for all to see".