Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.
Representatives from the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia and similar community-based projects, say that since January 2024, the bandwidth spent serving requests for multimedia files has increased by 50 percent.
“This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia…
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/wikimedia_foundation_bemoans_bot_bandwidth/
