Wikimedia Foundation Addresses Bandwidth Strain Caused by AI Bots, Urges for Sustainable Solutions
Web-scraping bots are straining the Wikimedia community by consuming a lot of bandwidth to gather content for training AI models. Since January 2024, requests for multimedia files have surged by 50%, mostly due to these automated programs, not human users. This surge is problematic because it increases operational costs and compels the server to fetch ...
