AI Data Scrapers Pose a Major Threat to Wikipedia’s Existence

Wikipedia is one of the biggest knowledge resources ever built, and includes crowdsourced contributions from millions of people around the world, facing an increasing threat from artificial intelligence developers.

The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, will begin in January 2024. Increased by 50% Network traffic requests download images and videos from the catalog. That surge comes primarily from automated data scraper programs, which developers use to collect training data for AI models.