Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping
m532@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Paid API…
Wikipedia = Reddit
Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping
m532@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Paid API…
Wikipedia = Reddit
Havatra@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Wikipedia (or the Wikimedia Foundation) is mostly driven by donations and volunteers, unlike Reddit…
Also, scraping every page on Wikipedia is incredibly heavy, especially compared to things like downloading a compressed copy of the entire site through torrents.