this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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The problem is, this assumes that even if the kind of AI creators that are scraping relentlessly (and there's a fair few that do) took this data source directly, that they'd then put an exception in their scrapers to avoid wikipedia's site. I doubt they would bother.