Wikipedia's solution to the AI bot scraping deluge. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots ...

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 ...

News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

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

Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications ...

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 ...

An experiment adding AI-generated summaries to the top of Wikipedia pages has been paused, following fierce backlash from its community editors. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind ...

AI bots are taking a toll on Wikipedia's bandwidth, but the Wikimedia Foundation has rolled out a potential solution.. Bots often cause more trouble than the average human user, as they are more ...

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 ...

AI firms typically use bots to access scholarly content and scrape whatever data they can to train the large language models (LLMs) that power their writing assistance tools and other products.

A single bot generated and published millions of articles on the largest non-English version of Wikipedia. The results caused a rift among editors — and a glimpse of what the online encyclopedia ...