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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoNot 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.