Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions
Zagorath@quokk.au 1 month agoThe 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 1 month 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.