I am the IT guy for some large websites. One gets over 120 million monthly pageviews. It gets hammered by AI-related bots, but we’ve got good caching, and know how to deal with bots and such.
AI web crawlers can be a problem for some sites, but not for those with quality hosting.
So the big established guys are protected and the little and medium sized guys get hammered.
Now just who would that benefit?