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

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

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

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

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.

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

The recent rise of generative AI has led to a surge in ... web-scraping bots called 'crawlers' to collect data. The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, reported ...