Wikipedia is under threat from the AI boom Chris Dorney / Alamy
Wikipedia is one of the greatest knowledge resources ever assembled, containing crowdsourced contributions from millions of humans worldwide – and it faces a growing threat from artificial intelligence developers.
The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, says since January 2024 it has seen a in network traffic requesting image and video downloads from its catalogue. That surge mostly comes from automated data scraper programs, which developers use to collect training data for their AI models.…
