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

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.

The Wikimedia Foundation has created a dataset via Kaggle for AI developers to use instead of overwhelming Wikipedia's servers with scraping 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 ...

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 ...

The fight over AI summaries is part of a larger struggle playing out in newsrooms figuring out where human editors still fit ...

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.

But a flood of bots constantly trawling its website for AI training needs has led to a surge in non-human traffic to Wikipedia, something it was interested in addressing as the costs soared.

An experiment to launch AI-generated summaries on Wikipedia pages has been paused after backlash from its community of editors.

Traffic from bots run by artificial intelligence companies is disrupting scientific journal websites. Some publications report that their websites are now visited more by bots than by genuine users.

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 ...