I’ve been reading up on this (The Verge has more details, or at least a complementary take), and in my opinion the people behind this kind of plagiarist content farming (some of whom have been already identified as repeat offenders) ought to be sued so hard their posteriors get nailed to sewage pipes in perpetuity.
There have been several instances of my older content re-surfacing in other places (mostly in APAC) and of late I occasionally get a few CDN spikes that seem to be rogue crawlers, but I’ve never bothered to deal with them other than changing image URL hashes periodically.
I suspect I will have to put in a bit more effort as the Internet continues devolving into AI content slurry.