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2025-04-02

Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and for watching videos or downloading files from Wikimedia Commons. No, the spike in usage came from AI crawlers, or automated programs scraping Wikimedia's openly licensed images, videos, articles and other files to train gener [...]

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2025-04-17

Wikipedia offers AI developers a training dataset to maybe get scraper bots off its back

Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been hav [...]

Match Score: 138.58

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2025-03-20

Why the Open Web Is at Risk in the Age of AI Crawlers

The Internet has always been a space for free expression, collaboration, and the open exchange of ideas. However, with persistent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), AI-powered web crawlers have [...]

Match Score: 99.19

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2025-03-10

Volunteer photographers are fixing Wikipedia's terrible celebrity headshots

Go to a profile of any celebrity on Wikipedia and it's quite possible that you'll be met with a terrible photo of them. Such images are often old or out of focus, perhaps captured candidly o [...]

Match Score: 84.62

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2025-03-21

Cloudflare unveils AI maze to trap unwanted web crawlers

Instead of simply blocking unwanted AI crawlers, Cloudflare has introduced a new defense method that lures them into a maze of AI-generated content, designed to waste their time and resources.<br / [...]

Match Score: 70.85

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2025-04-15

League of Legends Season 2: Hello Brawls, bye-bye Voracious Atakhan

Riot Games has unveiled details about the next season for League of Legends. This chapter of the MOBA is themed Spirit Blossom Beyond, and it will bring a temporary new look to Summoner's Rift an [...]

Match Score: 66.11

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2025-04-09

BAFTA game awards (adorably) dominated by Astro Bot

The 2025 BAFTA game awards took place yesterday in London and were dominated by one of our favorite games this year, Astro Bot. The PlayStation 5 platformer took home prizes in five categories includi [...]

Match Score: 33.59

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2025-03-24

AI bots scraping your data? This free tool gives those pesky crawlers the run-around

Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth has a message for bots: Get lost. Here's how to toggle on the tool. [...]

Match Score: 28.34

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2025-03-25

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

AI bots hungry for data are taking down sites by accident, but humans are fighting back. [...]

Match Score: 28.34

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2025-04-12

Doctor Who ‘The Robot Revolution’ review: Meet Belinda Chandra

Spoilers for “The Robot Revolution.”<br /> The start of any season of Doctor Who is important, doubly so when there’s a new co-star to introduce. “The Robot Revolution” has to get us t [...]

Match Score: 28.12