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 ...

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites, and it is actually prepared for peaks in traffic. However, AI scrapers make ...

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 ...

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI ...

Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable ...

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

With robots.txt preferences widely ignored, the AI Preferences Working Group is developing a new way for publishers to shield ...