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

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

How AI scraper bots are putting Wikipedia under strain For more than a year, the Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has seen a surge in traffic with the rise of ...

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

The Wikimedia Foundation is now facing a massive problem because of AI bots scraping data from its platforms for training.

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.

But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles ... other files to train generative artificial intelligence models. This sudden ...

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

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.

It is highlighting the growing impact of web crawlers on its projects, particularly Wikipedia. These bots are automated ... train different generative artificial intelligence models.