Nishant Kaushik<p>The insatiable hunger to feed <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> is parasitically draining the commons and public internet. Bandwidth costs are spiking as crawlers take data for training and information. For Wikipedia, the lack of attribution means no visitors, no donors, just cost. The <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> of AI are failing here.</p><p>I saw Tim Karr on bluesky suggest that AIs should pay fees or a tax (should that be tariffs?) into a fund that supports public content. Services like Cloudflare and Fastly that defend against bots are evolving for crawlers. In <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a>, the implications for <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AgenticAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgenticAI</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NHI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHI</span></a> are vast.</p><p><a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/</span><span class="invisible">how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/</span></a></p>