But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and for ...

Our content is free, our infrastructure is not,' the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia says, warning that AI scrapers are wasting ...

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

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns ...

One Cloudflare analysis found AI bots accessing 39 per cent of the million biggest websites – yet while bot protection ...

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

For more than a year, the Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has seen a surge in traffic with the rise of AI web-scraping bots. This increase in network ...

As AI developers harvest Wikipedia content to train their models, the resulting surge in automated traffic is driving up ...

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

Wikipedia has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid ...