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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikidata has built the semantic web backbone supporting knowledge cards in popular engines. Now, it's extending this ...

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

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

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

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.