Well its soft propaganda, what do you expect, they want to force a false dichotomy to shape public perception.
It is immaterial that these AI companies ignore contractual obligations (TOS), and are in fact performing attacks on said sites (DDOS is an attack).
In the last 3 months, there have been 4 or 5 small project that I regularly frequent where their sites that have been knocked offline as a result of this type of bad behavior, where they definitely are not following the robots.txt.
It is immaterial that these AI companies ignore contractual obligations (TOS), and are in fact performing attacks on said sites (DDOS is an attack).
In the last 3 months, there have been 4 or 5 small project that I regularly frequent where their sites that have been knocked offline as a result of this type of bad behavior, where they definitely are not following the robots.txt.
The article is just bad shilled journalism.