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AI Bots Strain Wikimedia Commons as Bandwidth Surges 50%
AI bots scraping content from Wikimedia Commons have caused a 50% surge in bandwidth usage since January 2024, straining resources and raising concerns about internet accessibility.
AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%
The Wikimedia Foundation says bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads has surged by 50% since January, 2024.
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A swarm of AI crawlers have increased Wikipedia’s bandwidth by 50% since January
This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models. Our ...
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Wikipedia Built the Internet’s Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit.
Wikipedia has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid ...
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
As a result, Wikimedia found that bots account for 65 percent of the most expensive requests to its core infrastructure ...