Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been having ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 services can identify genAI bots, block their traffic and trap them in content ...

Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications.

The company wants developers to stop straining its website, so it created a cache of Wikipedia pages formatted specifically ...

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 ...

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