Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden

Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…

Apr 3, 2025 - 02:17
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Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden

Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune

Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…