Topic: ai data scraping

Code Warriors: Open Source Developers Strike Back Against AI Data Harvesting

March 29, 2025

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Code Warriors: Open Source Developers Strike Back Against AI Data Harvesting

▼ Summary - The open-source community is pushing back against AI companies that use automated crawlers to gather data from public repositories for training models.- Many AI crawlers ignore the…

Endangered Languages and Trump's Medical Claims: The Download

AI-generated content is flooding smaller Wikipedia language editions, with up to 60% of articles in some African languages being poorly translated, which contaminates the data used to train future AI models. Donald Trump has made unsubstantiated claims linking childhood vaccines and acetaminophen...

Wikipedia Faces Its Greatest Existential Threats Yet

Wikipedia faces intense political attacks, particularly from the right, which allege systemic bias and target its volunteer editors, threatening its collaborative model. The platform struggles with cultural relevance and a declining volunteer base, risking its vitality as a living knowledge repos...