How AI scraper bots are putting Wikipedia under strain For more than a year, the Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has seen a surge in traffic with the rise ...

Bots often cause more trouble than the average human user, as they are more likely to scrape even the most obscure corners of Wikipedia. Bandwidth for downloading multimedia, for example, grew by ...

AI bots rely heavily on Wikipedia, which feed them a diet of half-truths, ideological bias and leftist lies — and then pass along the propaganda to millions of ...

More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information.

You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots training on Wikipedia articles has put enormous strain on the organization's servers. To curb the influx ...

The Web AI wikipedia scraping Wikipedia servers are struggling under pressure from AI scraping bots "Our content is free, our infrastructure is not" By Alfonso Maruccia April 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM 17 ...

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 ...

Technology AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia As AI developers harvest Wikipedia content to train their models, the resulting surge in automated traffic is driving up costs ...