AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%

AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%

The Wikimedia Foundation says bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads has surged by 50% since January, 2024.

The Wikimedia Foundation says base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers

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Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites, even on top of the accesses you are actually prepared there. However, AI-Scraper makes this more difficult.

How AI bots are suffocating Wikipedia

Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough