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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...