Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024 due to AI crawlers taking its content to train generative AI models. It has to find a way to address the problem, because it could slow down actual readers' access to its pages and assets.
when you’re a moron ai tech bro with a hammer, everything looks like a nail
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i think they want to ddos wikipedia. that way if we want info we have to ask their chat bots