I'm curious to hear what gets discussed in this presentation that Wikimedia are giving today (in an hour, open to anyone w/ zoom) about the strain that LLM hungry bots have put on Wikipedia, and their efforts to mitigate it. Based on the background of the presenter, it may touch on making pre-packaged bulk data available?
https://hai.stanford.edu/events/wikipedia-in-the-age-of-ai-and-bots
@ink did you hear/see 404Media's interview with Wikipedia's CTO partially on this topic? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-wikipedia-will-survive-in-the-age-of-ai/id1703615331?i=1000745729116
@hugh I did, it was a good interview!
hm, wow – probably I am the "almost" in "And yet, as successful as the model is, it’s almost never replicated."
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If anyone is interested in federating wikidata and thus the whole wikibase, please let me know. We are working fulltime on this (on a very small funding) …
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