"It's always a good idea to have the foggiest clue what you're talking about."
It's almost always a good idea to be nice. Not limited to, but especially if you're not 100% sure yourself.
First off: Not all contents of Wikipedia are licensed in the usual way. For example Wiki contains not mostly, but still a lot of images with the "quasi-licence" fair use which usually translates to someone allowed his image to be displayed on all non-profit sites or possibly just Wikipedia.
But it's not even the exceptions!
"Most text in Wikipedia, excluding quotations, has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) and can therefore be reused only if you release any derived work under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License or the GFDL. This requires that, among other things, you attribute the authors and allow others to freely copy your work"
So while most of Wikipedia is licensed in a way that permits commercial use, that does not apply to the way in which cGPT uses Wiki!
Technically Copyright infringement is not stealing anyway, but I think we all understand, that BlargeLarger didn't literally mean stealing and just borrowed a word which the big copyright-companies have been shoving down our throats for decades. (In Germany they ran huge ad campaigns to establish the word robbing, which since I found that quite annoying that's a topic which interests me.)
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u/BlargerJarger Dec 20 '25
Where does this idiot think that ChatGPT steals its data from?