NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-b…
SXSW 2025 Schedule | In a world where artificial intelligence and other socio-technical forces are rapidly advancing, the principles of openness and free access to information and resources are increasingly under threat.
@MostlyHarmless one of the things I write about here is that it's difficult to tell what's a bot, and even if you block one they'll just change their identity and start over
1) I don't have one. 2) I believe information should be available without any blockades which this one is.
You promote your post here, yet don't bother to give a clear indicator that full access is only possible via a subscription, which imo is a bad and missleading behaviour here. But whatever.
As does every other job in the world. Yet many newssite/service usually doesn't have such methods in place and instead goes with the usual ads-aproach, which is annoying, yet doesn't block you from reading stuff...
I mean, since it's about wikipedia/mediawiki, how would you feel about wanting to research something, seeing a Wikipedia entry, only to get like the summary and a big box telling you "Get the full article with Wikipedia+!"? I personally wouldn't bother using that site.
Andre
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in reply to Casey Newton • • •I was on a panel with the President of Wikimedia LLC at SXSW and this was brought up. There's audio attached schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/….
I also like Anna's (Creative Commons) framing of the problem being money + attribution + reciprocity.
Openness Under Pressure: Navigating the Future of Open Access
SXSW 2025 ScheduleQybat
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in reply to Casey Newton • • •AI powered bot nets - the latest energy hog.
theconversation.com/ai-is-bad-…
So much of recent tech development seems geared to profligate wasteful energy use.
Cryptocurrency - energy hog
news.climate.columbia.edu/2022…
AI data centers - energy hog
goldmansachs.com/insights/arti…
Cloud based software platforms & PaaS, Siri, Alexis, "Smart Appliances", NFT's - all energy hogs
ChatGPT - energy hog
euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03…
washingtonpost.com/technology/…
nature.com/articles/d41586-024…
No wonder petrostate ...
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ChatGPT, Deepseek & Co: How much energy do AI-powered chatbots consume?
Inês Trindade Pereira (Euronews.com)maybeanerd
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GitHub - TecharoHQ/anubis: Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers
GitHubMartin's pipe dreams
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in reply to Casey Newton • • •1) I don't have one. 2) I believe information should be available without any blockades which this one is.
You promote your post here, yet don't bother to give a clear indicator that full access is only possible via a subscription, which imo is a bad and missleading behaviour here.
But whatever.
Casey Newton
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in reply to Casey Newton • • •As does every other job in the world.
Yet many newssite/service usually doesn't have such methods in place and instead goes with the usual ads-aproach, which is annoying, yet doesn't block you from reading stuff...
I mean, since it's about wikipedia/mediawiki, how would you feel about wanting to research something, seeing a Wikipedia entry, only to get like the summary and a big box telling you "Get the full article with Wikipedia+!"? I personally wouldn't bother using that site.