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This is an interesting (and ethical) way for Wikimedia to finance their operations. I have to say I find it funny that back in the days teachers told us not to
by human 5y ago
This is an interesting (and ethical) way for Wikimedia to finance their operations. I have to say I find it funny that back in the days teachers told us not to use Wikipedia and now we’ll have large corporations paying to train their algos using their data. And then those algos will decide whether you get a loan or not, your insurance premiums, and much more.
- a_e_k 5y agoBack in grad school I had a well-respected tenured prof point out that Wikipedia was great for looking up immutable and uncontroversial technical things (e.g., a list of refractive indices) and could even be good as a starting point for learning about a topic to research it. You just can't stop there.
- staticman2 5y agoYou think loan decisions and insurance rates will be made based on a computer program trained on a Wikipedia page? That's... not how any of that works.
- IshKebab 5y agoWikipedia doesn't need this to finance their operations. They have so much money from donations they don't know what to do with it. If they had used it wisely they could have built a large enough endowment to be self-sustaining by now, but unfortunately they didn't.