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 ...

Wikipedia's solution to the AI bot scraping deluge. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots ...

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 ...

Wikipedia Tests New Way to Keep AI Bots Away, Preserve Bandwidth. The Wikimedia Foundation and Google-owned Kaggle give developers access to the site's content in a 'machine-readable format' so ...

News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

Wikipedia has created a machine-readable version of its corpus specifically tailored for AI training. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto/Getty On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced it is ...

AI bots are taking a toll on Wikipedia's bandwidth, but the Wikimedia Foundation has rolled out a potential solution.. Bots often cause more trouble than the average human user, as they are more ...

Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications ...

The site’s human editors will have AI help them with the “tedious tasks” that go into writing a Wikipedia article.

Wikipedia already uses AI to detect vandalism, translate content and predict readability, but up until the announcement, it had not offered AI services to its editors.

Automated bot traffic surpassed the human-generated type for the first time in a decade, constituting 51 percent of all web traffic in 2024, according to a recent report.

AI firms typically use bots to access scholarly content and scrape whatever data they can to train the large language models (LLMs) that power their writing assistance tools and other products.