Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoSell licenses of what? It’s already all in the creative commons iirc.
Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoSell licenses of what? It’s already all in the creative commons iirc.
Zagorath@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
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.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yes, but…
en.wikipedia.org/…/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.