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mrguyoramayesterday at 8:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

I'm expecting a full court legal attack on Wikipedia at some point. It's just too good for information, and companies would rather you use their chatbot to regurgitate that info now that they have their own copies. Google was already built to pretend as if they had some magic system giving you "Answers" that were 95% just the text of the infobox they used to have for wikipedia on the side.

It's going to suddenly be extremely valuable that wikipedia didn't settle for having a small rainy day fund and instead ceaselessly grabbed every fucking donation they could for two decades so they can fight such a legal battle.


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nephihahayesterday at 9:47 PM

Wikipedia is not a challenge to the system. If it were, it would be excluded from search results, much like blogs are now.

pvab3yesterday at 9:46 PM

on what basis?