I think there's a massive shift in what the letter of the law needs to be to match the intent. The letter hasn't changed and this is all still quite legal - but there is a significant different between what webscraping was doing to impact creative lives five years ago and today. It was always possible for artists to have their content stolen and for creative works to be reposted - but there was enough IP laws around image sharing (which AI disingenuously steps around) and other creative work wasn't monetarily efficient to scrape.
I think there is a really different intent to an action to read something someone created (which is often a form of marketing) and to reproduce but modify someone's creative output (which competes against and starves the creative of income).
The world changed really quickly and our legal systems haven't kept up. It is hurting real people who used to have small side businesses.