The wonder of the online world was built by a community of eccentric volunteers. Can it survive the A.I. models it helped train?

One “very senior Wikimedian,” we are told, “came to think of the project as a ‘city built by Asperger’s.’ ”

If you get the paywall, it’s readable at http://archive.today/R2rnW

    • antonim@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Made them free to access and download, if the book is in the public domain or under a Creative Commons license. Allowed limited access if copyrighted (through some weirdly legal solution where they technically “loan” the book to you while you view it in your browser), although that option has been partly limited in the recent years due to lawsuits by book publishers.

      https://archive.org/details/texts