Following the constant use of chatbots by large companies “scraping” Wikipedia, it has requested that they stop using these practices and use Wikimedia Enterprise (paid), as human traffic has decreased, leading to a decline in revenue. Observing this, I ask: Should large companies pay to use Wikipedia?

A) Absolutely not, Wikipedia's information is open to any company or individual.

B) Of course, if they use its data continuously, they should pay.

3 weeks ago · 👍 caleb, vincent

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Release it all under Gnu GPL or similar and require citations and attribution. If you have to "cite your sources" in academic papers, then make everything require citations.

Maybe set up an industry that clears derivative works? Much like the music industry attempts to clear samples for artists.

Put those data centres to work. · 3 weeks ago

B. Incurring high costs for a free service and then profiting from it by selling sub's to your latest AI model is just shitty behavior. I don't see a problem with throttling regular endpoints and selling unthrottled "Pro API" endpoints. If you can work as a company within the throttled request system, fair play but, if you need to make heavy usage you gotta pay. · 3 weeks ago

A) Free is free, Wikimedia is a company with 363 employees with a gross profit in 2024 of $185,400,000 and a net profit of $6,800,000 in that period... (And that's what's declared, strictly legal) maybe they're the ones who should be paying us to edit or create an article. :-) · 3 weeks ago

B · 3 weeks ago

B

ofc · 3 weeks ago