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

Our content is free, our infrastructure is not,' the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia says, warning that AI scrapers are wasting ...

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

But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia ... artificial intelligence models. This sudden increase in traffic from bots could slow ...

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.

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.

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.

But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles ... other files to train generative artificial intelligence models. This sudden ...