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Re:AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% by ricardobeat on Friday April 04, 2025 @05:43PM (#43587918)
> Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs

Second sentence in the article.

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Re:AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% by lxgr on Saturday April 05, 2025 @10:34AM (#43593842)
Yes, but I'm not convinced that that's actually (the majority of) what this is.

How many large models are realistically being trained on all of Wikimedia, compared to the number of people using AI search, possibly fetching sites very inefficiently (e.g. using a headless browser spun up from scratch, i.e. with a cold cache, every single time).

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