simplex on Nostr: Fuck damn AI crap. I hope the bubble bursts soon. ...

Fuck damn AI crap. I hope the bubble bursts soon.

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AI bots and summaries are stealing Wikipedia's traffic. Wikipedia, one of the last places, started feeling the heat of Google and other search engines' AI summary recently. They have lost 8% of human traffic while AI bot activities increased which increased its bandwidth costs by 50%. The Wikipedia blog warns that the decline in human traffic poses an existential risk to the Wikipedia ecosystem especially creation of new wiki article or updating older ones.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/