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I'm so angry about this.
In addition to all the other betrayals this is, I realized this morning that Wiki has always been one of those #solarpunk in real life models I held up of gifting economies where people help people, build knowledge, just for the love... and this... just utterly destroys that. And they're gaslighting everyone about it at the same time. It's disgusting.
@susankayequinn @crcollins could anyone explain the anger to me? I seem to be missing something.
The AI companies have been DDoSing Wikipedia for years, attacking the servers with constant crawling bots. Now they will get their own gate to the same content and leave Wikipedia alone, so that it will not suffer extra costs.
They will also pay extra for having this access.
What is wrong with that? Where is the betrayal of #solarpunk values?
Has Wikipedia agreed to host AI slop?
@alxd @susankayequinn @crcollins they've given in to the protection racket.
I understand why they have. Nobody has the power to help them get out of it. It probably feels very much like they have no choice.
People donated time, effort and expertise to make Wikipedia better. They wanted to build something good and free, for the benefit of mankind. And their work is now being sold to slop gangsters who are hell bent on destruction.
I haven't yet worked out how I feel about it, but I can certainly understand why some folks are upset.
@susankayequinn now I feel quite smug about ignoring their donation solicitation at the end of the year.
@ianto_jones whereas I, the fool, donated and believed them that they wouldn't sell out to AI corps
There's a ML person on bsky who's just utterly convinced this is GREAT...and she's working on "keeping AI out of wikipedia"... by recruiting more human editors! Because of course! That's what they want. All that human labor for free!
