Wikipedia Rolls Out Solution to AI Bots Draining Its Bandwidth

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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 potential solution.

Bots can often cause more trouble than run-of-the-mill human users, as they are more likely to access obscure, sometimes almost…