Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications.

As AI developers harvest Wikipedia content to train their models, the resulting surge in automated traffic is driving up ...

Automated requests of this kind are repeatedly blocked so that people can use Wikipedia and other content undisturbed. The traffic caused by the AI scrapers is “unprecedented” and means ...

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 having ...

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 ...

As a result, Wikimedia found that bots account for 65 percent of the most expensive requests to its core infrastructure ...

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 ...

The foundation plans on gathering feedback from the Wikipedia community on the best ways to identify traffic from AI bots scrapers and filter their access. This includes requiring bot operators to ...