Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-215 days agoAI 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.orgexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1717arrow-down17
arrow-up1710arrow-down1external-linkAI 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.orgTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-215 days agomessage-square81fedilink
minus-squareStrawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoSure but we’re in the comments section of an article about wikipedia being crawled, which is silly because they could just download a snapshot of wikipedia
minus-squareTXL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoThat’s right. It’s not humans making careful decisions about what to download. It’s a program that follows links and saves files.
Sure but we’re in the comments section of an article about wikipedia being crawled, which is silly because they could just download a snapshot of wikipedia
That’s right. It’s not humans making careful decisions about what to download. It’s a program that follows links and saves files.