Yay interrobang :D
Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 week agoRight‽ This is ridiculously stupid when you can download the entirety of Wikipedia in a single package and parse it to your hearts desire
ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not only that, but we make it goddamn trivial. Doing this is just stealing without attribution like the CC BY-SA 4.0 license demands and then on top of that kicking down the ladder for people who actually want to use Wikipedia and not the hallucinatory slop you’re trying to supplant it with. LLM companies have caused incalculable damage to critical thinking, the open web, and the climate.