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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Cloudflare unveils AI maze to trap unwanted web crawlers
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2025-05-08
Wikipedia's owner challenges categorization rules under UK's Online Safety Act
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