Wouldn’t it give them more rights? Before, anyone could scrape it and claim “Wikipedia’s public, so it’s fair game”, but now Wikipedia can say “no, you must licence the content, as did OpenAI and Microsoft.” That could give more protection against other AI companies scraping it for their models, wouldn’t it?
They lose the right to sue them
They probably realized that it was a losing battle and they didn’t want to pay legal fees.
Wouldn’t it give them more rights? Before, anyone could scrape it and claim “Wikipedia’s public, so it’s fair game”, but now Wikipedia can say “no, you must licence the content, as did OpenAI and Microsoft.” That could give more protection against other AI companies scraping it for their models, wouldn’t it?
Suing an ai company with the orange dipshit in office? Good luck…