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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

Wikipedia probably wants to sell access to LLMs to train. It’s only valuable if Wikipedia remains a high-quality, slop-free source.

I think even AI zealots think there should be silos of content to train from that are fully human generated. Training slop on slop makes the slop even worse.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Sell licenses of what? It's already all in the creative commons iirc.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The content is CC licensed, but they are trying to block AI scraping because it overloads their servers. They have a paid API that uses a lot less compute for both Wikipedia and the AI, as well as being a revenue source for Wikipedia.

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