[diggan]

I'm not sure this is what is currently affecting them the most, the article mentions this:

> Since AI crawlers tend to bulk read pages, they access obscure pages that have to be served from the core data center.

So it doesn't seem to be driven by "Search the web for keywords, follow links, slurp content" but trying to read a bulk of pages all together, then move on to another set of bulk pages, suggesting mass-ingestion, not just acting as a user-agent for an actual user.

But maybe I'm reading too much into the specifics of the article, I don't have any particular internal insights to the problem they're facing I'll confess.