“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251017020527/https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
Wikipedia mad it got competition.
Libertarians be like: free market, competition, no state.
Unless it affects them, then its: how unfair that I can’t have a monopoly, I want the state to remove my competitors.
Is the Wikipedia foundation libertarian? And where do you think the AIs are ripping all their data from?
As far as I know they aren’t some nefarious mega corporation.
AFAIK the founder of Wikipedia is a libertarian who believes the free market will solve all problems. He, of course, has to make a bunch of excuses for why Wikipedia itself isn’t being helped by the Free Market^tm , such as “We don’t have real capitalism bro just trust me bro please donate.”