Wikipedia, the free-to-use online encyclopedia platform that gets billions of pageviews from all around the world, is losing a significant portion of its traffic because of AI-generated summaries.

In a blog post, Wikimedia, the foundation that owns the online encyclopedia, says that its algorithms, which classify its algorithms into humans and bots, noticed a sudden uptick in human traffic from Brazil in the month of May.

Upon investigating and updating the algorithm, they noticed that much of this unusually high traffic spanning the months of May and June was actually coming from bots that were designed to evade detection.

According to Marshall Miller, who works for the Wikimedia Foundation, human pageviews are falling eight per cent year-over-year because of “the impact of generative

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