At the moment, it goes against the grain to bet against A.I.
The big tech companies, wagering billions on the new technologies and largely undaunted by their shortcomings or risks, seem intent on forging ahead as fast as they can.
While Wikipedia’s licensing policy lets anyone tap its knowledge and text — to “reuse and remix” it however they might like — it does have several conditions.
Mixing Wikipedia’s corpus into a chatbot model that gives answers to queries without explaining the sourcing may thus violate Wikipedia’s terms of use, two people in the open-source software community told me.
In April, Reddit announced that it would not make its corpus available for scraping by big tech companies without compensation.
Persons:
Theo, Joseph Reagle, Reagle, Reddit, Nicholas Vincent, Selena Deckelmann, Vincent, ‘, ’
Organizations:
Northeastern University, A.I, Getty, Wikimedia Foundation, Google
Locations:
TikTok, California