"We're not asking for charity": Wikimedia CEO calls out AI for unpaid data use

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Wikimedia CEO Bernadette Meehan reports an 8% drop in Wikipedia page views in 2025, attributing it partly to AI models providing Wikipedia-derived information without visits. Wikimedia charges large AI companies for high-volume data access, but major players like OpenAI and Anthropic are not publicly listed as paying customers, raising concerns about sustaining Wikipedia's ecosystem.

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