You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots training on Wikipedia articles ...

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

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 company wants developers to stop straining its website, so it created a cache of Wikipedia pages formatted specifically ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the internet’s largest free encyclopedia Wikipedia, is offering an ...

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 ...

but mainly due to bots scraping openly licensed images from the Wikimedia Commons image catalog to provide images for training AI models. While the Wikimedia Foundation's servers are built to ...

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

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 ...