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Wikipedia links May outage to OpenAI's 'rogue' bots

Original: Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's 'rogue' bots may be linked to a May outage https://www.theverge.com/news/1004929/wikipe

A Wikipedia operator says bots operated by OpenAI may have been linked to an outage that hit the site in May. The claim suggests the AI company's automated crawlers behaved in a 'rogue' way and placed unusual load on Wikimedia's servers. The report is drawing attention to growing strain that AI data collection is putting on the infrastructure of the open web.

Why now: Concerns are rising about AI companies' aggressive scraping overloading nonprofit internet infrastructure like Wikipedia.

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• Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's 'rogue' bots may be linked to a May outage https://www.theverge.com/news/1004929/wikipedia-openai-rogue-bots-wikimedia-foundation-outage # AI # Tech # OpenSource · the_verge@robot.villas · 4

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