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AI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. (diff.wikimedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They can also crawl this publically-accessible social media source for their data sets.

Crawling would be silly. They can simply setup a lemmy node and subscribe to every other server. Activitypub crawler would be much more efficient as they wouldn't accidentally crawl things that haven't changed, but instead can read the activitypub updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Sure but we're in the comments section of an article about wikipedia being crawled, which is silly because they could just download a snapshot of wikipedia