AI bots are increasingly affecting website performance, analytics, infrastructure costs, and content visibility. New research and infrastructure data suggest that the challenge is no longer simply scraping, but managing how automated traffic interacts with websites and the businesses that depend on them. Scraping Is The Least Of The Problems Many discussions among SEOs and site owners center on AI bots scraping. It’s a valid concern that AI systems harvest content for LLM training with virtually zero attribution when the content is remixed into an AI answer. Site owners worry about intellectual property. Search marketers worry about how AI systems use their content. But infrastructure teams are increasingly seeing different and equally consequential problems. The Banality Of Bots Getting Lost And Scraping Things The issue is increasingly that many bots are creating unnecessary load, consuming resources, and sometimes becoming trapped in inefficient loops.…