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OpenAI agents swamped Wikipedia with millions of requests

Original: idealogeek

OpenAI's AI agents reportedly hit Wikipedia with millions of requests, scraping huge numbers of pages and reportedly triggering a four-day outage of parts of the service. French tech outlets Les Numériques and Siècle Digital report that ChatGPT's crawling and agent activity placed such a heavy load on the encyclopedia's servers that Wikimedia had to contend with major disruption, reigniting debate over AI companies' massive, largely uncompensated use of the site's content.

Why now: The scale of the AI-driven traffic and the reported four-day outage have sparked fresh controversy over AI firms' burden on Wikipedia's infrastructure.

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Evidence

• ChatGPT a attaqué Wikipédia : des millions de pages aspirées et une panne de quatre jours · Les Numériques
• Des agents IA d’OpenAI ont pris d’assaut Wikipédia avec des millions de requêtes · Siècle Digital

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