Before generative AI, if you wanted an inexpensive way to build out lots of content, you launched a wiki. You’d spin up a site—broad or niche—and throw the doors open for anyone to edit.

Wikipedia's plan to roll out AI summaries wasn’t the only thing editors had gripes about, though. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent.

The major underlying theme of the replies, though, was that AI summaries had the potential to seriously undermine the trust that Wikipedia had built up over its 24 years of operation. Readers are ...

Not sure if someone has already pointed this out, but Wikipedia articles are supposed to begin with a good summary. If we need AI to create it, we're not doing our job.

Among Wikipedia's English-speaking users, researchers also found people preferred the first AI-suggested alternative "twice as often" as the page's initial citation.

The nonprofit behind Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial ...

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What’s interesting about such comments, from my perspective, is that I see a slower approach regarding AI as much more of what I’m interested in from my OS and core programs such as email and ...