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

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.

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 ...

AI bots have been plaguing Wikipedia for a long time, causing huge surges to the website’s bandwidth and straining its infrastructure—but the Wikimedia Foundation has rolled out a proactive ...

Popular free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has been struggling with AI bots in recent times, which scrape text and multimedia from the platform to train generative artificial intelligence models ...

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 ...