How AI scraper bots are putting Wikipedia under strain For more than a year, the Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has seen a surge in traffic with the rise of ...

As a result, Wikimedia found that bots account for 65 percent of the most expensive requests to its core infrastructure ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns about AI scraper bots and their impact on the foundation's ...

Wikipedia is paying the price for the AI boom: The online encyclopedia is grappling with rising costs from bots scraping its articles to train AI models, which is straining the site’s bandwidth ...

The Wikimedia Foundation is now facing a massive problem because of AI bots scraping data from its platforms for training.

Once upon a time, researchers discovered that not all bots are the same in the bustling world of Reddit. They created a ...

One Cloudflare analysis found AI bots accessing 39 per cent of the million biggest websites – yet while bot protection ...

But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles ... other files to train generative artificial intelligence models. This sudden ...

AI bots scraping content from Wikimedia Commons have caused a 50% surge in bandwidth usage since January 2024, straining resources and raising concerns about internet accessibility.

It is highlighting the growing impact of web crawlers on its projects, particularly Wikipedia. These bots are automated ... train different generative artificial intelligence models.