PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Wikipedia is paying the price for the AI boom: The ...

Wikipedia Tests New Way to Keep AI Bots Away, Preserve Bandwidth The Wikimedia Foundation and Google-owned Kaggle give developers access to the site's content in a 'machine-readable format' so the ...

Editor's take: AI bots have recently become the scourge of websites dealing with written content or other media types. From Wikipedia to the humble personal blog, no one is safe from the network ...

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 having ...

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia’s servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...

The extent of automated access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is likely much greater than previously thought. New analysis methods have revealed that some accesses, which the Wikimedia ...

Wikipedia is seeing a sharp decline in traffic as online users increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google AI overviews to get their info. sdecoret - stock.adobe.com Is ChatGPT just Wikiped-AI? After ...

A new study from Axios reveals that ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude -- three of the most popular AI bots -- use Wikipedia extensively for training their Large Language Models. NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Wikimedia is sounding the alarm on the impact AI is having on reliable knowledge and information on the internet. In a blog post, Wikimedia's senior director of product, Marshall Miller, lays out the ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. But it seems to me that rumors of the imminent “death of Wikipedia” at the hands of generative A.I. are ...

Wikipedia Faces Flood of AI Bots That Are Eating Bandwidth, Raising Costs 'Our content is free, our infrastructure is not,' the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia says, warning that AI scrapers are wasting ...