Wikipedia servers are struggling under pressure from AI scraping bots
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns ...
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AI Bots Strain Wikimedia Commons as Bandwidth Surges 50%
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.
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden
Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online ...
AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%
The Wikimedia Foundation says bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads has surged by 50% since January, 2024.
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
As a result, Wikimedia found that bots account for 65 percent of the most expensive requests to its core infrastructure ...
Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI ...