Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoAI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.diff.wikimedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1709arrow-down17cross-posted to: fuck_ai@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ziplobsters@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1702arrow-down1external-linkAI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.diff.wikimedia.orgTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square80fedilinkcross-posted to: fuck_ai@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ziplobsters@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareStrawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoSure but we’re in the comments section of an article about wikipedia being crawled, which is silly because they could just download a snapshot of wikipedia
minus-squareTXL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoThat’s right. It’s not humans making careful decisions about what to download. It’s a program that follows links and saves files.
Sure but we’re in the comments section of an article about wikipedia being crawled, which is silly because they could just download a snapshot of wikipedia
That’s right. It’s not humans making careful decisions about what to download. It’s a program that follows links and saves files.