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 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 is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers. The Wikimedia Foundation is getting pummeled by crawlers, which could cause issues for actual readers. mariella moon.

Those executives had spotted the early signs of a trend that has since become clear: artificial intelligence is transforming ...

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 ...

Wikipedia halts its AI summary rollout after human editors raise concerns about credibility. Wikipedia has long allowed its (human) users to add and edit entries. Recently, it rolled out AI summaries ...

Wikipedia is paying the price for the AI boom: The online encyclopedia is grappling with rising costs from bots scraping its articles to train AI models, which is straining the site’s bandwidth.

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 ...

Revision wars on Wikipedia amongst human editors is an all-too-common occurrence, but new research from the UK shows that similar online battles are being waged between the site’s software robots.

A new study suggests AI tools could help Wikipedia users find better citations for claims made in the articles. U.S. ... But Wikipedia's history with AI tools and other bots dates to 2002, ...

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.