Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping
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Wikipedia is pushing AI companies to stop scraping its website and instead use its paid Wikimedia Enterprise platform to access content at scale. The nonprofit foundation discovered AI bots had been disguising themselves as humans to scrape content, causing unusually high traffic while actual human page views dropped 8% year-over-year. Wikipedia warns that fewer visits could mean fewer volunteers and donors to support the encyclopedia's mission.
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