The Wikimedia Foundation says bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads has surged by 50% since January, 2024.

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

Specifically, Wikimedia Commons, the primary go-to repository for images, videos and audio files, saw a drastic increase in ...

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 ...

The Wikimedia Foundation says that Wikipedia has experienced a 50% surge in bandwidth, most of which are AI Bot crawlers.

With robots.txt preferences widely ignored, the AI Preferences Working Group is developing a new way for publishers to shield content from AI bot scraping.

This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models. Our ...

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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.

The Wikimedia Foundation ... data-hungry scrapers looking to train AI models. "Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes from humans during high-interest events, but the ...