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AI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. (diff.wikimedia.org)
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[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago

Doesn't make any sense. Why would you crawl wikipedia when you can just download a dump as a torrent ?

[-] mke@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Apparently the dump doesn't include media, though there's ongoing discussion within wikimedia about changing that. It also seems likely to me that AI scrapers don't care about externalizing costs onto others if it might mean a competitive advantage (e.g. most recent data, not having to spend time and resources developing dedicated ingestion systems for specific sites).

I want to stress this: it's not that "tech bros" are just stupid—even though a lot of them are revoltingly unappreciative of the giants whose sholders they stand on—it's that they don't care.

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[-] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Feel like this belongs in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Think I should cross-post?

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

To be clear, network costs represent a tiny fraction of WMF's expenses. Much of WMF's budget goes to social programs, not technical upkeep.

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