Wikipedia wants Google, OpenAI and other AI companies to pay for data
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has urged major technology companies, including Google and OpenAI, to start paying for the extensive use of Wikipedia’s content in training artificial intelligence (AI) models. Wales said that while Wikipedia’s information is freely licensed, the increasing use of its data by AI companies has created a growing financial and technical strain on the non-profit organisation.
“AI bots are costing us money,” says Wales
