Polskie Radio

Russian propaganda floods Wikimedia Commons, shaping AI training data, Polish expert warns

A Polish expert has warned that Russian state media content is flooding Wikimedia Commons, the open multimedia repository ...
Observer

Wikipedia Built the Internet’s Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit.

As large language models absorb Wikipedia’s content without attribution, the world’s free encyclopedia finds itself at the center of the AI information economy—struggling to keep control over the ...
Polskie Radio

Russian propaganda material floods Wikimedia Commons, potentially shaping AI training data

A Polish expert warns that Russian state media content is flooding Wikimedia Commons, the open multimedia repository that ...
TechCrunch

AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%

The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from ...
Ars Technica

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia’s servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...
Gizmodo

Wikimedia Is Making Its Data AI-Friendly

Wikimedia, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and sister sites like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, just made it easier for AI models to tap into its massive knowledge base. Wikimedia Deutschland, the ...
Tempo

Indonesia Threatens to Block Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons Access

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Digital (Komdigi) has issued a final warning to the Wikimedia Foundation to promptly complete the registration process as a private ...