AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%
: ons apr 02, 2025 1:26 pm
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/
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/ai-cr ... -surge-50/