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   Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 12:44:33 JST Casey Newton

   NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/

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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 19:14:39 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

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     • dilbert 1
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     @sun looks like wikipedia's having the same issues you are
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