AI bots rely heavily on Wikipedia, which feed them a diet of half-truths, ideological bias and leftist lies — and then pass along the propaganda to millions of ...

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.

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 servers are struggling under pressure from AI scraping bots "Our content is free, our infrastructure is not" By Alfonso Maruccia April 3, 2025, 15:18 17 comments ...

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 ...

The penalty cost for pirating copyrighted works to train AI bots could exceed $1 trillion, which could scare AI firms into ...

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 ...

Adapting to AI-driven bot threats Bots were once simple tools — tiny bits of code built to automate menial digital tasks. But today’s bots are far from basic.

Persona helps companies like OpenAI, LinkedIn and Reddit verify the identities of millions of users at a time when AI agents have made it increasingly difficult to do so. Now, it has $200 million ...

Adapting to AI-driven bot threats Bots were once simple tools — tiny bits of code built to automate menial digital tasks. But today’s bots are far from basic.