This was the original article that was the source of the hn thread: pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163
So, the potential wordpress plugin to look for would be “block IP addresses” and you could try to block those listed in the above link
According to the post, all these AI scrapers are ignoring the robots.txt file that is meant for such a purpose.
The only thing that sounded promising was a comment by user
“walterbell”, linking to a list of OpenAI IP addresses used by their scraper: github.com/greyhat-acad...
Are you are wanting to block the OpenAI “scraper” from accessing your website? There was just a post this morning on hackernews about this: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4254... (1/?)