So yes, they are definitely running scrapers that are this badly written.
Also old scraper bots trying to disguise themselves as GPTBot seems wholly unproductive, they're try to immitate users, not bots.
Yes, hence the "which was the only two I saw, but could have been forged".
> I'd love to see some of the web logs from this if you'd be willing to share!
Unfortunately not, I'm deleting any logs from the server after one hour, and also don't even log the full IP. I took a look now and none of the logs that still exists are from any user agent that looks like one of those bots.