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 ...

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

Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications.

Traffic from bots run by artificial intelligence companies is disrupting scientific journal websites. Some publications ...

One Cloudflare analysis found AI bots accessing 39 per cent of the million biggest websites – yet while bot protection services can identify genAI bots, block their traffic and trap them in content ...

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.

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in Wikipedia's bandwidth usage. However, this enormous increase is not due to human users ...

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

The US led the world in web traffic to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, with an astonishing 17.46 billion visits last year. The data, from aitools.xyz, tracked traffic on more than 10,500 websites.

Popular bots on Character.AI, for example, let users interact with replicas of fictional characters or practice foreign languages. But there are also bots that refer to themselves as mental health ...

However, the source of this increase was not human readers, but productive AI bots. This situation strains the platform’s infrastructure by using Wikipedia’s rich content pool. Bots create a huge load ...