Nemeski@mander.xyz to Technology@piefed.social · 14 days agoWikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social videotechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down11cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up150arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social videotechcrunch.comNemeski@mander.xyz to Technology@piefed.social · 14 days agomessage-square10linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareThorry@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·13 days agoI really don’t understand why someone would use a bot to go to Wikipedia? Like if you wanted to use the data for training an AI or something like that, you could just download the data directly? Why go through the whole inefficient web crawler path?
minus-squaredontbelievethis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 days agoBecause they already do it with everything else. It costs more to change the process.
I really don’t understand why someone would use a bot to go to Wikipedia? Like if you wanted to use the data for training an AI or something like that, you could just download the data directly? Why go through the whole inefficient web crawler path?
Because they already do it with everything else. It costs more to change the process.