Overrun by bots and crawlers?

I'm guessing that the rise of AI and LLMs might have something to do with this.

I've long known that the statistics on Google Blogger give no accurate reading of how many people are visiting the blog, because I also have a Statcounter account that gives me more detailed and accurate information indicating that I have long had "unique views" in the hundreds, perhaps, in an average week?

Google will show massively higher numbers, but last week I happened to look at its stats and saw a new record for this:

 A single day with half a million hits?   On Statcounter, it shows 20 (yes, twenty!) unique hits on 21 September.

It's been known for a long time that the issue is that Google counts webcrawlers and bots hitting sites as if they are "real" hits.   And I would guess that, given LLMs' voracious appetite for writing, it's not unreasonable to think that a 20 year old blog with a lot of posts may be a target of interest for them.  

I don't really care if this is the explanation - in a way, it feels like my own modest contribution to the rise of the AGI that will replace human intelligence in the future!   

Or, of course, I could be wrong and this is explained by something else...