corbin@infosec.pub to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoWikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptionswww.howtogeek.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1362arrow-down13
arrow-up1359arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptionswww.howtogeek.comcorbin@infosec.pub to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squareZagorath@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoThe 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.
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.