<ul><li>Relentless AI scraping is straining Wikimedia's servers, increasing bandwidth usage by 50% since January 2024.</li><li>AI bots seeking training data for LLMs are vacuuming up terabytes of content from Wikimedia.</li><li>Non-human traffic is imposing technical and financial costs on Wikimedia without proper attribution.</li><li>The surge in traffic during events has revealed the limitations of Wikimedia's infrastructure for handling bot activity.</li></ul>

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

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