I don’t know what was worse, Stack Overflow’s moderation system, which many IT communities find annoying, or AI killing the site 🤔 Both extremes seem bad for the open web…. I still think that we don’t need three chatbots controlling everything. I fear Wikipedia might be next. This is not good for the Internet
@nixCraft seconded, very worried about wikipedia. for me that's the most important site on the internet

@bazkie @nixCraft
Wikipedia offers free copies of all available content! Yes, you can legally download the entire Wikipedia in your language for offline usage here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Feed this to your local running LLM or use other free tools to make it conveniently usable.

Wikipedia:Database download - Wikipedia

@tjunker @bazkie @nixCraft
Sadly it doesn't stop the ai training bots pummelling it constaltly because if they asked they would have to follow the licence. See the phrase in one of the copyright lawsuits from one of the companies 'if we pay for one thing we have to pay for everything'. I forget which compqny as they've all taken this stamce