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 ...

Their standard-bearer The New York Times has already successfully taken legal action against OpenAI. They claim the tech firm ...

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

The company wants developers to stop straining its website, so it created a cache of Wikipedia pages formatted specifically for developers.

Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia ...

The Wikimedia Foundation and Google-owned Kaggle give developers access to the site's content in a 'machine-readable format' so the bots don't scrape Wikipedia and stress its servers.

With nearly 7 million articles, the English-language edition of Wikipedia is by many measures the largest encyclopedia in the world. The second-largest edition of Wikipedia boasts just over 6 ...

AI bots are taking a toll on Wikipedia's bandwidth, but the Wikimedia Foundation has rolled out a potential solution. Bots often cause more trouble than the average human user, as they are more ...