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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
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this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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all websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle.
The problem is many no longer identify as bots and come from hundreds if not thousands of IPs.
Voight-Kampff them.
Increasing numbers do.
But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.
FWIW:
Wikipedia:Bot policy#Bot requirements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Bot_requirements
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