维基百科运营方维基媒体基金会在一宗涉及《纽约时报》、OpenAI和微软等公司的AI版权诉讼中提交法庭之友意见书，主张法院不要把人工智能训练和聊天机器人向用户复现内容混为一谈。基金会没有支持任何一方的整体立场，而是警告，过于简单化的裁决可能同时伤害开放知识与互联网内容生态。
维基媒体认为，网站抓取本身不应被视为版权侵权；未经许可将受版权保护的作品用于大型语言模型预训练，如果模型产出与原文“有所不同”，可以适用合理使用原则。但如果聊天机器人直接输出文章内容，取代读者访问原始作品，AI公司就应遵守授权要求。
这一主张与维基百科采用的知识共享署名—相同方式共享许可有关。维基媒体称，模型会复现以开放许可发布的维基百科文字，却未必遵守署名和相同方式共享等条件。基金会担心，若法院广泛认定AI训练一概不受限制，可能为忽视许可、削弱作者与读者之间内容流通开绿灯；反过来，若版权方获得过于宽泛的控制权，也可能阻碍对作品进行创新性、转化性使用。
维基媒体还指出，AI工具既带来风险，也能帮助维基百科编辑识别破坏性修改、版权违规和人肉信息，并找出需要改进的条目；但聊天机器人直接提供信息，也可能让用户不再访问维基百科及其他原始网站，削弱依赖社区维护的开放知识项目。
《纽约时报》2023年起诉OpenAI和微软，指控两家公司未经许可抓取大量新闻文章并用于训练AI系统；两家公司主张相关训练属于合理使用。维基媒体警告，法院若未能细致权衡训练与生成内容的差异，裁决可能影响未来AI开发、开放网络以及用户获取信息的方式。
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Wikimedia Foundation, a Wikipedia operator, submitted an amicus curiae opinion in an AI copyright suit involving companies such as The New York Times, Open AI and Microsoft, arguing that the court should not confuse artificial intelligence training and chat robots with user-repeated content. Rather than supporting the overall position of either party, the Foundation warns that overly simplistic decisions may at the same time harm open knowledge and Internet content ecology.
According to the Wiki media, the capture of a website should not itself be considered copyright infringement; the unauthorized use of copyright-protected works for pre-training in large language models may apply the principle of reasonable use if the model output is “different to the original”. But if chat robots directly export content instead of the reader accessing the original work, AI will comply with the authorization requirement.
This idea is related to the knowledge-sharing signature used in Wikipedia - the same way in which licences are shared. According to the Wikimedia, the model would reproduce the wikipedia of open licence publish without necessarily complying with the conditions of signature and sharing in the same way. The Foundation is concerned that, if the courts are widely satisfied that AI training is not restricted, the green light may be used to ignore licences and weaken the flow of content between authors and readers; in turn, the creative and transformative use of works may be hindered if copyrighters gain too broad control.
Wikimedia also noted that the AI tool presents risks and can help Wikipedia editors to identify destructive changes, copyright violations and human meat information and identify entries that need improvement; however, chat robots can provide information directly and may also discourage users from accessing Wikipedia and other original sites and weaken open knowledge projects that rely on community maintenance.
The New York Times filed charges against Open AI and Microsoft in 2023, accusing both companies of seizing a large number of news articles without permission and using them for training the AI system; the two companies argued that the training was a reasonable use. Wikimedia warns that court decisions that fail to carefully weigh differences between training and production may affect future AI development, open networks and the way users receive information.
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