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

This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models. Our ...

Representatives from the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia and similar community-based projects, say that since ...

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

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

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

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia ... developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and for watching videos or downloading ...

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia and associated libraries have registered a drastic increase in bandwidth for downloads of multimedia content in the past year and blame this on scrapers for ...

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 ...

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. O ...