Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
just to be clear to folks. This is about wikipedia getting compensation for all sorts of ai providers grabbing data from it.
Well, there it is, enshitification inbound.
There’s no enshittification. This is just WMF (not even the community) allowing AI to train on Wikipedia’s data. And FYI, most Wikipedias strongly discourage the use of LLMs or all AI in general.
The enshitification will ensue. And having Microsoft training on people’s work to profit off of it is fucking horrible too.
It’s just WMF selling the work of unpaid volunteers to the worst grifters on the planet for a quick buck.
I wonder how many full copies of wiki have been downloaded and are just waiting to be deployed on a new host so collectively we can all just dump the AI from microslop
mine is from last year
I will be downloading it for sure
Why they would do it when this hurts their own business is beyond me.
Welp, I guess I won’t be donating next year.
Why they would do it when this hurts their own business is beyond me.
$$$. Duh. The wikipedia dude has always been a “libertarian” (aka capitalist shill).
People doing free labor for this “libertarian” somehow surprised when dude sells their work to the worst grifters imaginable.
Wikipedia has always been phony AF. Tool for hegemonic narrative.
