Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months 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-square81linkfedilinkarrow-up1715arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1708arrow-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-23 months agomessage-square81linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareStrawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months 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-up1·3 months 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.