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In an article titled Wikipedia seeks more AI licensing deals similar to Google tie-up, co-founder Wales says, Reuters reports that the Wikimedia Foundation is working with Big Tech on deals similar to its arrangement with Google, in order to monetise AI companies' heavy reliance on Wikipedia content.
Speaking in an interview at the Reuters NEXT summit in New York, Wales said that tech companies' usage of freely available Wikipedia knowledge to train their large language models results in cost surges that Wikipedia's nonprofit operator must bear.
Wales said the small donations from the public that form the Foundation's primary source of income were not intended to underwrite the development of multibillion-dollar commercial AI products:
"Wikipedia is supported by volunteers. Those people are donating money to support Wikipedia, and not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money. That doesn't feel fair."
Asked whether any legal action was being contemplated, Wales replied:
"I don't know. I feel like our ability of soft power to just shame them is probably pretty powerful."
Bernadette Meehan, due to take over as the new Wikimedia CEO next month, expressed similar sentiments in another Reuters piece:
"Wikipedia content is core to generative AI, but it's often lacking a clear attribution back to Wikimedia sites ... so, core to the conversations that I look forward to having is how to rectify that issue [...] Reuse (of Wikipedia content) is a real challenge. The idea is to help large-scale re-users get the content they need, but in a way that allows all of these Big Tech firms to contribute back to the ecosystem they depend on," Meehan said.
"Because what we don't want to do is change the free and open nature of Wikipedia for everyone else."
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