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Wikipedia owner signs on Microsoft, Meta in AI content training deals
The Wikimedia Foundation secured licensing deals with AI firms including Amazon and Meta to cover costs from AI scraping, with human traffic down 8%, officials said.
- On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation unveiled licensing deals with AI firms including Amazon, Meta Platforms, Perplexity, Microsoft and Mistral AI to monetize heavy AI-driven traffic.
- Facing rising server costs from bot traffic, Wikimedia servers and infrastructure have been heavily taxed by bots and AI scrapers, while 8 million donors fund the site and human traffic fell 8%.
- Wikimedia Enterprise's Lane Becker said tech companies must support Wikipedia financially, Microsoft's Tim Frank called partnerships key for a sustainable AI content ecosystem, but the foundation did not disclose deal details.
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Faced with the rise of the generative tools used by 44% of French people, the collaborative encyclopedia, which celebrates its 25th anniversary on Thursday, maintains its method based on human work. Its 20,000 monthly contributors favour collective debates rather than artificial intelligence.
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Total News Sources28
Leaning Left6Leaning Right5Center10Last UpdatedBias Distribution48% Center
Bias Distribution
- 48% of the sources are Center
48% Center
L 28%
C 48%
R 24%
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