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How AI scraper bots are putting Wikipedia under strain
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 ...
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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.
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Wikimedia Complains About AI Bots Scraping as It Strains Servers, Causing Bandwidth to Surge by 50%
The Wikimedia Foundation is now facing a massive problem because of AI bots scraping data from its platforms for training.
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 ...