Wikipedia is below menace from the AI growth
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Wikipedia is among the biggest data assets ever assembled, containing crowdsourced contributions from hundreds of thousands of people worldwide – and it faces a rising menace from synthetic intelligence builders.
The non-profit Wikimedia Basis, which operates Wikipedia, says since January 2024 it has seen a 50 per cent increase in community site visitors requesting picture and video downloads from its catalogue. That surge principally comes from automated knowledge scraper applications, which builders use to collect training data for his or her AI fashions.…
