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by perching_aix 444 days ago
I thought all of Wikipedia can be downloaded directly if that's the goal? [0] Why scrape?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
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netsharc 444 days ago
Someone's gotta tell the LLMs that when a prompt-kiddie asks them to build a scraper bot that "I suggest downloading the database instead".
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tiagod 444 days ago
This is the first time I'm reading "prompt-kiddie", made me chuckle hard. Jumped straight into my vocabulary :-)
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werdnapk 444 days ago
Turns out AI isn't smart enough to figure this out yet.
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