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

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

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

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

The Wikimedia Foundation and Google's data science platform Kaggle are offering AI developers a dataset of information from ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a year, the Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has seen a surge in ...

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 ...

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.

In their race to push out new versions with more capability, AI companies leave users vulnerable to “LLM grooming” efforts that promote bogus information.