Ask HN: Has everyone just given up on blocking bots?

Bots account for just a ridiculous amount of web traffic, tying up resources and bandwidth, and the go to response to this is...basically nothing. You can maybe throw Cloudflare in front of your site, and that's it.

Within the last year it's become much worse with AI bots vacuuming my content on my dime.

Why is there not some community-driven attempt block them? Is this problem just not solvable?