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 ...

According to Ars Technica, bots that scrape Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons pages have consumed 50 percent of its bandwidth, putting a massive strain on the nonprofit's entire operation.

Those executives had spotted the early signs of a trend that has since become clear: data-vars-anchor-text="artificial ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...

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 ...