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If courts completely prohibit the use of copyrighted content for AI training, Wikipedia's volunteers will be unable to use AI tools to assist with editing, translation, fact-checking and content expansion, and many assistant tools based on open-source models may be forced to be taken down or have their functions restricted.
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10/30/2026
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