Is there something about cUrl that attracts these AI bots, or is it just better documented by them - because I was going to say that this is old, but then I checked the date and realized that this is a new problem. Going down the rabbit-hole, @badger has made multiple posts [0][1] about AI slop.
[0] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... [1] https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d...