"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/
So, basically they privatize and enclosure the public collective knowledge and work of the Commons, and as a bonus, they shut it down. It's a win-win for them...
@per_sonne @oconnell
Except they're killing the golden goose. They keep scraping sites like Wikipedia because they want to keep their knowledge base up to date, but that won't work if traffic from the scrapers kills it.
It's a collective action problem. There are now dozens, maybe hundreds, of companies out there scraping the web to feed AI. No single one of them is a big problem by itself, but taken as a group, they're destroying the information sources they depend on.
Mx. Kit O'Connell 🏳️🌈⭐👏
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