Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 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-square80fedilinkarrow-up1713arrow-down17cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1706arrow-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-25 days agomessage-square80fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareStrawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 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-up1·2 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.