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Wikipedia (the greatest website in history) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 days ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't get the hype for AI when you have Wiki. When they don't know something, my students are like "let's ask chat GPT" and I'm always "No, let's look at Wikipedia". Truly the greatest website and the proof that we could do anything if we decided to work together.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

The LLMs are often paraphrasing Wikipedia in my experience, to the extent the Wiki Foundation is begging AI companies to top scraping and use the API to help bear some of the costs, because the machines are starting to represent a big hosting strain on them. Wikipedia is also rather unusual among top websites in still hosting stuff themselves on servers they own, rather than contract out to AWS or another middle man.