Techdirt. – AI Crawlers Are Harming Wikimedia, Bringing Open Source Sites To Their Knees, And Putting The Open Web At Risk

Apr 102025
 

The current rapid advances in generative AI are built on three things. Computing power, some clever coding, and vast amounts of training data. Lots of money can buy you more of the first two, but finding the necessary training material is increasingly hard. Anyone seeking to bolster their competitive advantage through training needs to find fresh sources. This has led to the widespread deployment of AI crawlers, which scour the Internet for more data that can be downloaded and used to train AI systems. Some of the prime targets for these AI scraping bots are Wikimedia projects, which claim to be “the largest collection of open knowledge in the world”. This has now become a serious…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Trump’s tariff “pause”: Another expression of the deepening crisis of US imperialism and the capitalist order

Apr 102025
 

The “pause” came as it was becoming apparent the entire financial system was on the verge of another crisis rivalling those of 2008 and March 2020 or possibly even greater.

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