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Wikipedia Asks AI Developers to Stop Scraping the Site for Free

Wikipedia is one of the premier internet institutions, relied on by millions of people worldwide for accurate, up-to-date information. The latest generative AI models also rely on this resource, but they're placing too great a strain on its servers and not delivering a significant return on all the site's hard work and server costs. So, Wikipedia has officially asked: Can they please use the API instead?

Wikipedia Enterprise is a paid API that allows AI developers to scrape Wikipedia's content at will, without licensing fees or potential server outages. It's trustworthy, human-curated, annotated, and reliably accurate data. More importantly, it stops the site from being battered by AI requests that only serve to help the companies running them, not Wikipedia, and not its users.

Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping

Wikipedia on Monday laid out a simple plan to ensure its website continues to be supported in the AI era, despite its declining traffic.

In a blog post, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs the popular online encyclopedia, called on AI developers to use its content “responsibly” by ensuring its contributions are properly attributed and that content is accessed through its paid product, the Wikimedia Enterprise platform.

The opt-in, paid product allows companies to use Wikipedia’s content at scale without “severely taxing Wikipedia’s servers,” the Wikimedia Foundation blog post explains. In addition, the product’s paid nature allows AI companies to support the organization’s nonprofit mission.

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