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i feel like there's a postivie-sum game where the AI companies should start heavily subsidizing wikipedia. wikipedia gets money to stay afloat, ai companies co
by parpfish 1y ago
i feel like there's a postivie-sum game where the AI companies should start heavily subsidizing wikipedia.
wikipedia gets money to stay afloat, ai companies continue to get access to their huge human-curated knowledge graph.
- dlubarov 1y agoWMF only spends a couple million on essentials like hosting though. They have over 700 employees, and their budget is pretty bloated with thing that aren't really related to running Wikipedia, including sizeable grants to other organizations. See their org chart [1] or this classic essay [2]. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Organizational_chart https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Organiz... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...