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Wikipedia is one of the last genuine places on the Internet, and these rat bastards are trying to contaminate that, too
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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Wikipedia just sold the rights to use Wikipedia for AI training to Microsoft and openai....
How exactly does that work? Wikipedia does not "own" the content on the website, it's all CC-BY licensed.
The BY term is not respected by LLMs
So? Still doesn't make sense to me that wikipedia can sell anything meaningful here, but I'm also not a lawyer. Do they promise not to sue them or sell them some guarantee that contributors also can't sue them? Is it just some symbolic PR washing?