As someone who contributes a decent amount of OSS code on GitHub, I want my code scraped by AI related companies. If GitHub starts making opinionated decisions about how to “protect” my code, then I won’t like that.

A scraper won't be using search. Only crawling links. If they required login to browse a repository that would stop bots but also cause a 1000x greater riot.

I just assume this to be the case for all future decisions like this. Surely the Reddit API changes were at least partly from this? Reddit is one of the richest sources of (pretty) authentic human interaction that humanity has ever made. Every AI company and startup was going to mercilessly mine this forever. I'm sure Reddit would much rather sell (our) interactions instead.

It's not their code to "protect". The license of each project dictates what can and can't be done with it.

And also, what is stopping the scrapers from creating a bunch of accounts to scrape with, and rotating them once they get banned?