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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers The Verge / Jess Weatherbed / Apr 17, 2025 “Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the ...

Amid concerns that AI could eventually impact jobs held by people today, especially in terms of content creation, Wikipedia indicates that it intends to use AI as a tool that makes people’s jobs ...

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.