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Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
(www.engadget.com)
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Fuckin' crawlers, man.
There's not even a reason to crawl Wikipedia. You can literally download dumps and feed them in, and those dumps are mirrored as to not DDoS Wikipedia itself.
when you're a moron ai tech bro with a hammer, everything looks like a nail
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i think they want to ddos wikipedia. that way if we want info we have to ask their chat bots