How AI scraper bots are putting Wikipedia under strain For more than a year, the Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has seen a surge in traffic with the rise ...

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

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

Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers. The Wikimedia Foundation is getting pummeled by crawlers, which could cause issues for actual readers. mariella moon.

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 has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid conversations with Observer, two Wikimedia executives explain why ChatGPT ...

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 ...

Wikipedia has long allowed its (human) users to add and edit entries. Recently, it rolled out AI summaries on articles, but pushback from editors has prompted the platform to halt the feature. As ...

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 ...

The Microsoft-backed AI lab stressed its role as a pioneer of using robots.txt, a set of code that prevents automated scraping of web data, and said its crawlers respect publisher preferences.