"The load on our infrastructure is not sustainable and puts human access to knowledge at risk. We need to act now to re-establish a healthy balance."
AI scraper traffic is threatening #Wikipedia's sustainability on multiple fronts:
https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/
#news #tech #AI
Mx. Kit O'Connell 🏳️🌈⭐👏
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