The nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia has a plan to save the open internet, one in which AI chatbots and human artistry can coexist peacefully.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and a dozen other “free knowledge” sites—all collaboratively maintained and edited by an open-source community of human contributors—submitted an amicus brief on Thursday to the court overseeing the New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. Filed in December 2023, that lawsuit alleges that the tech companies illegally used millions of copyrighted articles from the Times to train their AI chatbots, which now compete with the publication as a source of online information. OpenAI and Microsoft have argued that scraping the Times’ content, and of the countless other materials taken from the web to train ChatGPT and Copilot, constitutes fair use under U.S.…