Lately almost all my web traffic is from bots from “China”. I looked it up - apparently these are “content-scraping” website bots, that “spoof” China as a source, and download gigabytes of everything on your website. What do they want with my “content”? This makes me a little nervous - they go everywhere, as interested in music, as in images, politics, biography, humor, family history, philosophy. Are they looking for sources of blackmail? Something they can sell? It would appear to be a kind of brake on free speech. Duh. Maybe they contribute to the pseudo-authoritative voice of AI: “some people say…”, “sources suggest…”