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Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 6 months ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 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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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago

Yes, but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ADatabase_download

That's because viewing the page uses server resources, as done API access. If you want the data you can download the database directly.

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