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Wikimedia Commons Faces Surge in Bandwidth Demand from AI Crawlers
Specifically, Wikimedia Commons, the primary go-to repository for images, videos and audio files, saw a drastic increase in ...
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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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A swarm of AI crawlers have increased Wikipedia’s bandwidth by 50% since January
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 ...
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 ...
Daily Express1mon
Fury as Commons Speaker billed taxpayer £21,000 for flights and £500 for 'extra suitcase'
The Speaker of the House of Commons billed taxpayers just over £500 to take extra baggage on a trip overseas. Sir Lindsay Hoyle's expenses show he made a claim for a nine day trip to South Africa ...