Cloudflare radar, which presumably a much bigger and better sample, reports Bytespider as the #5 AI Crawler behind FB, Amazon, GPTBot, and Google:
https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=ai.bots
And that's not including the most of highest volume spiders overall like Googlebot, Bingbot, Yandex, Ahrefs, etc.
Not to say it isn't an issue, but that Forture article they reference is pretty alarmist and thin on detail.
Not to say it isn't an issue, but that Forture article they reference is pretty alarmist and thin on detail.