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How AI bots are suffocating Wikipedia

Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough

Casey Newton

Apr 1, 2025 — 9 min read

A graph from the Wikimedia Foundation shows the company's bandwidth costs beginning to spike as chatbots become more popular. (Wikimedia)

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