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Bot Swarms · October 2025

Wikipedia weathers AI challenges but faces new pressures from data scrapers: Study

A King's College London study found ChatGPT has not killed Wikipedia usage, but AI scrapers bulk-reading obscure articles are quietly eating the foundation's server budget alive. The researchers' prescription: a new social contract between AI companies and the free knowledge they are strip-mining. Turns out free knowledge still has a hosting bill.

Source: Tech Xplore

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