More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information.

Wikipedia halts its AI summary rollout after human editors raise concerns about credibility. Wikipedia has long allowed its (human) users to add and edit entries. Recently, it rolled out AI summaries ...

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 ...

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The fight over AI summaries is part of a larger struggle playing out in newsrooms figuring out where human editors still fit in.

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.

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The Wikimedia Foundation and Google-owned Kaggle give developers access to the site's content in a 'machine-readable format' so the bots don't scrape Wikipedia and stress its servers.

5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn’t ChatGPT. We challenged AI helpers to decode legal contracts, simplify medical research, speed-read a novel and make ...

We now block more than 190 million flagged IP addresses per month, but attempts by other bots to visit the site remain an existential threat to the platform.

Meta's AI personas aren't your typical spam bots - they are powered by increasingly sophisticated language models that can understand context, maintain consistent personas and engage in nuanced ...

Improvements in the technology behind voice-based AI bots are making them more prolific and humanlike in phone calls.