Wikipedia has a solution for the deluge of AI training bots hogging its servers

Image: AI bots. Image credit: pch.vector via Freepik. Article by Cecily Mauran. Mashable – April 18, 2025.

You’re not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots training on Wikipedia articles has put enormous strain on the organization’s servers. To curb the influx of “non-human traffic” scraping the site for training data, Wikipedia is taking a proactive approach: serving up its data directly to AI developers. […]

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