When an AI internet search competes against a human internet search
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šļø 1 May 2025
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Summary
When President Jimmy Carter died late last year, the foundation that runs Wikipedia noticed something unusual: the flood of interest in the late president created a content bottleneck, slowing load times for about an hour.
Wikipedia is built to handle spikes in traffic like this, according to the Wikimedia Foundation, but it's also dealing with a surge of bots scraping the site to train AI models, and clogging up its servers in the process, the organizationās chief product and technology officer Selena Deckelmann told Marketplaceās Meghan McCarty Carino.
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| 1:07.1 | Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. |
| 1:25.2 | When Jimmy Carter died late last year, the foundation that runs Wikipedia noticed something unusual. |
| 1:29.5 | The flood of interest in the late president created a content bottleneck, slowing load times for about an hour. Wikipedia is built to handle spikes in traffic |
| 1:36.3 | like this, according to the foundation, but it's also dealing with a surge of bots, scraping |
| 1:42.7 | the site to train AI models and clogging up its servers. |
| 1:47.3 | That's according to Selena Deckleman, chief product and technology officer at Wikimedia Foundation. |
| 1:53.4 | This is traffic that doesn't necessarily follow like what other people are looking at. |
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