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AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoAnd in return, they drive traffic away from the sites that collect the information in the first place, causing the sources to lose revenue.
iopq@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the case of Wikipedia, it saves them money
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It saves them money in the same sense it saves every other information source money, it reduces traffic. But just like other sites can’t serve ads without traffic, Wikipedia can’t prove its worth and ask for donations without traffic. Eventually, people will start asking themselves why they need to support Wikipedia when Google’s AI tells them everything they need to know, unaware that Google’s AI can only do so because it scrapes Wikipedia without paying for it.