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In a digital world where AI is rapidly integrating into everything from emails to entertainment, even Wikipedia isn't immune. But while generative AI might be the trend du jour, not everyone's on board — especially the people who actually keep Wikipedia running.
The Wikimedia Foundation has revealed that Wikipedia's bandwidth usage has surged by 50% over the past year, largely due to the increasing activity of AI-powered bot crawlers. These bots, often used by AI companies to train language models, have been scraping massive amounts of data from the online encyclopedia—leading to notable strain on the platform's infrastructure.
