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News India Live, Digital Desk: We all have always searched for every small and big information, from school projects to office research. wikipedia Have trusted. You must have often seen that Wikipedia used to ask for a donation of Rs 50 or 100 from us and you to run its site. But now the story is about to change a bit. The news is that this biggest treasure of knowledge has now decided to earn money from the giants of the technology world.
Yes, Wikipedia parent company Wikimedia Foundation has signed a special agreement with the world’s biggest tech companies like Amazon, Meta (Facebook) and Microsoft.
After all, why has this deal been done?
Let us understand this in very easy language. Nowadays you must be seeing that there is a flood of ChatGPT and other AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools on the internet. When we ask a question to these AI bots, where do they get the answer from? A large part of it comes from Wikipedia itself.
Until now, these big companies—Google, Amazon or Meta—were able to pick up tons of Wikipedia data for free and train their AI models (AI Models Training). Wikipedia should work hard, bear the expenses of the server and these companies should eat the cream. To change this, Wikipedia has now Wikimedia Enterprise Through this, it has been decided to take money from these companies in exchange for using data.
Why do Tech Giants have to pay money?
Now the question comes that when the data is free for everyone, then why will these companies pay money? Actually, companies need very high speed and structured data so that their AI can work without making mistakes. Wikipedia has offered Amazon and Microsoft that we will give you the fastest and refined data (Cleaner Data Pipeline), which will make your AI tools smarter, but in return you will have to cut a cheque.
This Wikipedia content licensing for AI It is being said that this will become a permanent source of income for Wikipedia. With this, they will not have to ask for donations from the general public again and again.
Will it affect common users (you and me)?
This is the most important question. Do we now have to pay to read Wikipedia? So the answer is-no way.
Wikipedia has made it clear that this platform will remain absolutely free for common internet users, students and researchers as always. This deal is only for those billionaire companies who are running their business using this data and commercial use of Wikipedia data Is doing.
