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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

A recent surge in generative AI scraper bot activity has been observed impacting the online landscape. New data indicates that these “gray bots” are increasingly targeting web applications.

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.

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 ...