Amongst the many reasons for loathing LLM / graphics plagiarism models are that their makers are doing a DDOS against the web.

I thought I was being quite good at blocking bots - OpenAI's was obsessed with one page on a server, visiting it every few seconds, so that was blocked a while ago - but adding a few more "AI" bot-specific rules to fail2ban a week ago has resulted in traffic to a forum site halving.

I changed default search engine from Google some months ago, and I have no regrets at all about doing so.