More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information.

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 ...

You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots training on Wikipedia articles has put enormous strain on the organization's servers. To curb the influx ...

Those executives had spotted the early signs of a trend that has since become clear: artificial intelligence is transforming ...

As AI -powered search engines remove the need for people to trawl the web looking for sites with answers, they are stopping ...

Wikipedia Tests New Way to Keep AI Bots Away, Preserve Bandwidth. The Wikimedia Foundation and Google-owned Kaggle give developers access to the site's content in a 'machine-readable format' so ...

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 ...

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The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can ...

Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers. The Verge / Jess Weatherbed / Apr 17, 2025 “Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping ...