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Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions (www.howtogeek.com)
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[โ€“] Zagorath@quokk.au 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.