Mx. Kit O'Connell 🏳️‍🌈⭐👏Apr 3, 2025

"The load on our infrastructure is not sustainable and puts human access to knowledge at risk. We need to act now to re-establish a healthy balance."

AI scraper traffic is threatening #Wikipedia's sustainability on multiple fronts:

https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/

#news #tech #AI

How AI bots are suffocating Wikipedia

Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough

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Show threadGlobaltom
@oconnell ... and they don't need to do *any* scraping! Wikipedia makes downloads available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Wikipedia:Database download - Wikipedia

Apr 3, 2025 at 5:42pmWeb
Show threadJoe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉Apr 3, 2025
@Globaltom @oconnell it's so stupid and inefficient. Everything about "AI" is stupid and inefficient... it's like they tried to think up all the ways they could ramp up CapEx, not only for themselves but for everyone on earth. Now we all pay for it every day and everywhere we go.