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

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

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

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 bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads has surged by 50% since January, 2024.

It’s essential to ensure an AI bot understands varied inputs, generates accurate outputs and provides responses that are both ...

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

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 has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid ...

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.