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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (www.404media.co)

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

all websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle.

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[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The problem is many no longer identify as bots and come from hundreds if not thousands of IPs.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Voight-Kampff them.

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago*

all websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle.

Increasing numbers do.

But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.

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[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

FWIW:

Wikipedia:Bot policy#Bot requirements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Bot_requirements

RationalWiki:Bots

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Bots

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