Wikipedia is below menace from the AI increase
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Wikipedia is without doubt one of the biggest data assets ever assembled, containing crowdsourced contributions from tens of millions 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 improve in community visitors requesting picture and video downloads from its catalogue. That surge largely comes from automated knowledge scraper applications, which builders use to acquire coaching knowledge for his or her AI fashions.…