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Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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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.
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.