Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that ...

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

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

Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been having ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia and associated libraries have registered a drastic increase in bandwidth ... the AI scrapers were responsible for these problems. The Foundation's own ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from ...

Wikipedia is paying the price for the AI boom: The online encyclopedia is grappling with rising costs from bots scraping its articles to train AI models, which is straining the site’s bandwidth. O ...

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI crawlers taking its content to train generative AI models. It has to find a ...

Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability ... There's cultural issues showing up, apart from the inherent evil of American-style capitalism.