The main difference is the content and the reason it’s being displayed.
If you reach a page through Google there’s most likely:
- Ads
- Funnels to other content
- Funnels to a paid service
- Juice (Brand recognition)
An AI crawler strips all of this away, effectively costing resources while not only removing the potential for income, but also the potential to even have any sort of branding.
So, advertising will payout less because an increasing chunk of visitors are bots. The content’s value is decreasing as a result.
This is a typical scenario where you want to profit off of someone else’s work while being detrimental to it.
Yes, this emotional appeal would work if I developed a crawler that wanted to rip content and spin it for personal profit (which I do, to an extent).
What realistically will happen in this world is that websites will cease to exist, and this content that you are ripping for free will be locked behind an API service that you will need to pay for.