Wikimedia Takes on the AI Copyright Debate: What It Wants From OpenAI

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, has entered the copyright dispute between The New York Times, OpenAI and Microsoft. It has urged a US court to adopt a balanced approach when deciding whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted material to train their models and generate responses. Wikimedia filed an amicus brief, also known as a friend-of-the-court submission, in the ongoing copyright litigation in New York. The organization believes that an overly restrictive or overly permissive ruling could damage the open internet and limit access to reliable information..Wikimedia Proposes Two Different Rules for AI.Wikimedia is not fully supporting either the publishers or the AI companies. Instead, it wants the court to distinguish between training AI models and using online content to generate chatbot responses.