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Wikipedia owner signs on Microsoft, Meta in AI content training deals (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dude@lemmings.world to c/news@lemmings.world

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[–] Sunspear@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I mean Wikipedia has regular dump files where you can just... download its entire content, or parts of it if you so wish. Getting money instead for that bandwidth is immediately an improvement

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

They weren't using those dumps. They were scraping the main site, at incredible expense to Wikipedia.