AI bots rely heavily on Wikipedia, which feed them a diet of half-truths, ideological bias and leftist lies — and then pass ...

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.

Bots often cause more trouble than the average human user, as they are more likely to scrape even the most obscure corners of Wikipedia. Bandwidth for downloading multimedia, for example, grew by ...

Since AI crawlers tend to bulk read pages, they access obscure pages that have to be served from the core data center. Wikimedia said that upon a closer look, 65 percent of the resource-consuming ...

Wikipedia has created a machine-readable version of its corpus specifically tailored for AI training. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto/Getty On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced it is ...

“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 Foundation ...

More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information. They’re fighting back.

According to 404 Media, Wikipedia announced the opt-in AI pilot on June 2, which was set to run for two weeks on the mobile version of the site. The summaries appeared at the top of select ...

Wikipedia’s edit and page-view metrics can demonstrate such impact. Meanwhile, reviewing and editing Wikipedia during a research project can help to highlight knowledge gaps, contextualize ...