After a website gained traction on Hacker News, its owner was overwhelmed by aggressive AI bot scraping and vulnerability scanning originating from major cloud providers and residential proxy networks. To combat the abuse, webmasters are increasingly blocking entire cloud ASNs and dropping packets at the network edge, though these defensive measures often inadvertently disrupt legitimate users on corporate VPNs. This situation highlights the growing difficulty of defending against decentralized AI scrapers, as traditional IP and ASN bans are quickly becoming ineffective.