How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Date Linked: 2 April 2025
Source: story link, from diff.wikimedia.org
I think this is a good example of why digital labor is a particularly salient critique of generative AI. Yes, Wikimedia content is licensed, but not as strictly as copyrighted works. Yet, ripping off of their work is arguably worse than grabbing some copyrighted works.
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