AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%

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AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%

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The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from Wikimedia Commons has surged by 50% since January 2024. The reason, the outfit wrote in a blog post Tuesday, isn’t due to growing demand from knowledge-thirsty humans, but […]

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/ai-cr ... -surge-50/
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