{"id":973746,"date":"2025-11-13T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973746"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:16:43","slug":"wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-to-google-openai-and-other-ai-companies-pay-us-for-training-ai-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/13\/wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-to-google-openai-and-other-ai-companies-pay-us-for-training-ai-its-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales to Google, OpenAI and other AI companies: \u2018Pay us for training AI, it\u2019s not\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has called on companies like Google and OpenAI to pay for using the encyclopedia\u2019s content to train their large language models (LLMs). Wales argued that the current situation is unfair to Wikipedia&#8217;s donors who support the platform&#8217;s infrastructure costs. Wales suggested that Wikipedia\u2019s content is a massive part of the training data for all major LLMs. He said that all content is freely licensed for people to use as they please<br \/>\nHowever, during an interview with news agency Reuters, he said that the immense traffic generated by AI bots is straining Wikipedia\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has called on companies like Google and OpenAI to pay for using the encyclopedia\u2019s content to train their large language models (LLMs). Wales argued that the current situation is unfair to Wikipedia&#8217;s donors who support the platform&#8217;s infrastructure costs. Wales suggested that Wikipedia\u2019s content is a massive part of the training data for all major LLMs. He said that all content is freely licensed for people to use as they please However, during an interview with news agency Reuters, he said that the immense traffic generated by AI bots is straining Wikipedia\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}