I'm not sure the old search engines are any good anymore, though, so we don't really care...

That's kind of the point. AI has just been more terrible news after terrible news.

It is NOT a good thing. Unless you know, you like being covered in oil and lit on fire...

If you've got your robots.txt set to tell search engines to go away, or at least don't look at those pages, then you probably aren't worried about that, I assume?

there's a difference between an ai-bot and a search engine bot though