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Wikipedia servers are struggling under pressure from AI scraping bots
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns about AI scraper bots and their impact on the foundation's internet...
Automated programs are scraping the Wikimedia Commons image catalog to feed the content to AI models, the foundation states, and the infrastructure isn't built to endure this type of parasitic internet traffic. Wikimedia's team had clear evidence of the effects of AI scraping in December 2024, when former US President Jimmy Carter passed away, and millions of viewers accessed his page on the English edition of Wikipedia. The organization is working to address this new kind of network challenge, which is now affecting the entire internet, as AI and tech companies are actively scraping every ounce of human-made content they can find.
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