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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 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.