Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. AI companies heavily relied on free sources of information like Wikipedia to train their AI models in the first place, and continue to frequently cite the encyclopedia for their responses. “They’re not donating in order to subsidize these huge AI companies,” Wales told the Associated Press. “I wouldn’t really want to use an AI that’s trained only on X, you know, like a very angry AI.” (Wales is referring to the website owned by Elon Musk. Updated to clarify the nature of the deals struck between Wikipedia and the tech companies.