Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-square79linkfedilinkarrow-up1718arrow-down17cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1711arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square79linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareTelex@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat’s right. It’s not humans making careful decisions about what to download. It’s a program that follows links and saves files.
That’s right. It’s not humans making careful decisions about what to download. It’s a program that follows links and saves files.