Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday

Submitted ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BrikoX@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.

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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
just to be clear to folks. This is about wikipedia getting compensation for all sorts of ai providers grabbing data from it.

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MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Why they would do it when this hurts their own business is beyond me.

Welp, I guess I won’t be donating next year.

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T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well, there it is, enshitification inbound.

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- Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There’s no enshittification. This is just WMF (not even the community) allowing AI to train on Wikipedia’s data. And FYI, most Wikipedias strongly discourage the use of LLMs or all AI in general.
  
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  - T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The enshitification will ensue. And having Microsoft training on people’s work to profit off of it is fucking horrible too.
    
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- Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I wonder how many full copies of wiki have been downloaded and are just waiting to be deployed on a new host so collectively we can all just dump the AI from microslop
  
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  - fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    mine is from last year
    
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  - T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I will be downloading it for sure
    
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