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Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web

Global Published 30 October 2026, 14:00 · archived 30 Oct 2026

The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work - but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger […]

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