Wikipedia, the online nonprofit encyclopedia, laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic.

  • Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You think AI companies care what they scrape. Their system is set up to scrape anything it can get.

    • usernameusername@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Oh I know, I was just thinking that if the AI companies will make an exception for Wikipedia (by paying) like the Wikimedia people think, they could also download the complete thing for free. But yeah they probably won’t do any of that so this was kinda useless I think

    • BanMe@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      They can scrape an ongoing log of interactions between editors about the articles themselves, which is probably fairly worthwhile content honestly. More content there than in articles probably as well.