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

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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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.

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.

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But a flood of bots constantly trawling its website for AI training needs has led to a surge in non-human traffic to Wikipedia, something it was interested in addressing as the costs soared.

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Wikipedia has long allowed its (human) users to add and edit entries. Recently, it rolled out AI summaries on articles, but pushback from editors has prompted the platform to halt the feature.

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.

“Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation ...