corbin@infosec.pub to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptionswww.howtogeek.comexternal-linkmessage-square88linkfedilinkarrow-up1628arrow-down14cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1624arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptionswww.howtogeek.comcorbin@infosec.pub to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square88linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareZagorath@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 day 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.
minus-squarericecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoYes, 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.
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.
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.