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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/caseynewton/statuses/114265531280810009">Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 12:44:33 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton" title="caseynewton@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/61006-48-20240126011805.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Casey Newton" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Casey Newton</a></section><article><p>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. <a href="https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/" rel="nofollow">https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4830762#notice-9460884">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-02T12:44:33+09:00" title="Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 12:44:33 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/114265531280810009" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/114265531280810009">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4401725">At the same time, the organization disclosed today in a new blog post, the situation is becoming untenable: AI-driven requests for Wikipedia content are growing exponentially, at significant cost to the foundation, and are not being paid by the companies responsible. Those companies are also serving information from Wikipedia without attribution, greatly reducing the chances that their users will visit Wikipedia and contribute or donate to it.Moreover, during surges of interest in the site — after the death of a celebrity, for example, or in the wake of a natural disaster — bot traffic to other pages is now so significant that it is causing slower page loading times for human users.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/265/531/029/273/017/original/45d151dbc029d97e.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/265/531/029/273/017/original/45d151dbc029d97e.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.platformer.news</div><h5><a href="https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/">How AI bots are suffocating Wikipedia</a></h5><div> from <span>@CaseyNewton</span></div></header><div>Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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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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1. At the same time, the organization disclosed today in a new blog post, the situation is becoming untenable: AI-driven requests for Wikipedia content are growing exponentially, at significant cost to the foundation, and are not being paid by the companies responsible. Those companies are also serving information from Wikipedia without attribution, greatly reducing the chances that their users will visit Wikipedia and contribute or donate to it. Moreover, during surges of interest in the site — after the death of a celebrity, for example, or in the wake of a natural disaster — bot traffic to other pages is now so significant that it is causing slower page loading times for human users.
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  Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough

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