Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-announces-new-ai-partnerships-with-amazon-meta-microsoft-perplexity-and-others/
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-announces-new-ai-partnerships-with-amazon-meta-microsoft-perplexity-and-others/
@Sarahp I can’t stand the companies making the deals with Wikimedia, but if the content's already getting scraped anyway, definitely a good step to get paid fairly for it.
Beware of rug pulls with "benefactors".
Once PBS got David Koch on their board, Frontline & Nova rarely aired critiques of Koch Network's anti-democracy activities again.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/a-word-from-our-sponsor
https://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/ombudsman/global-warming-koch-and-nova/
https://harpers.org/archive/2014/10/pbs-self-destructs/
https://truthout.org/articles/the-corporate-dictatorship-of-pbs-and-npr/
A visit from #PrinceBonesaw to Silicon Valley in 2018 gave us the AI mess and a tech & fossil fuel axis alliance against democracy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour
Patrons means control.
@Sarahp What's the TLDR? AI companies can scrape content for training, but the content is staying human sourced?