Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. The companies ...

As Wikipedia’s donation-based revenue model is upended by AI, the nonprofit is striking licensing deals with Alphabet and other AI companies. From finding a celebrity’s age to researching college ...

Wikipedia has finally taken a stance against companies that scrape data from their website, particularly those that use it for training their AI models without consent, compensation, or permission ...

Wikipedia seeks fair compensation to offset server costs from AI scraping Financial burden highlights how AI models keep training on nonprofit’s data Wikipedia considers technical tools to limit AI ...

As generative AI companies search for cleaner training data, one of the internet's oldest institutions is quietly changing its economic model. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, has ...