Web-scraping bots
Bots are driving down human traffic at the world's largest online encyclopedia.
Tech Life · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
We look at the impact data-scraping robots from AI firms are having on the online encyclopedia used by hundreds of millions of people.
Also in this edition of Tech Life: if you work in the fashion industry, if you are a fashion model, are you worried about AI ? A lot are, and we find out why.
And how do we prevent children from seeing online adult content ? Many parts of the world are requiring sites to verify the ages of their users. Now the biggest adult site argues that we need a better system.
Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn
(Image: A photo illustration of the Wikipedia logo displayed on a smartphone screen. Credit: Getty Images)