AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers.
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.
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Wikipedia Built the Internet’s Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit.
“That’s how it started,” Lane Becker, senior director of earned revenue at the Wikimedia Foundation, told Observer. “Now, it is rapacious,” he added. As Wikipedia becomes more central to ...