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Wikipedia Asks AI Companies to Stop Scraping Data and to Start Paying Up (www.cnet.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/tech@programming.dev

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Close, I think the average dev can't even imagine a product that isn't for profit and is available to everyone as a public service. Scraping uses a lot more resources than just regularly downloading the snapshot, so it genuinely makes no sense. It's like shoplifting from a soup kitchen.

But... I know tech people personally. They're really that dumb.