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The backlash was swift enough that Wikipedia pulled the plug on the pilot just a day after it launched. It’s a textbook example of how not to roll out AI to a devoted and discerning editorial team.
Readers discuss the promise and the pitfalls of artificial intelligence.
Wikipedia has halted its trial rollout of AI summaries for some of its articles after a very strong rebuke from its extensive network of human editors.
The Wikimedia Foundation has created a dataset via Kaggle for AI developers to use instead of overwhelming Wikipedia's servers with scraping bots.
Wikipedia is backing off a plan to test AI article summaries. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to trial the feature for about 10 percent of mobile web visitors.
Humans say no to AI “Yuck”: Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editor revolt The test grew out of a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference.
Software AI Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it 'would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source ...
Wikimedia Foundation denies receiving government notice from India, defends editorial practices on Wikipedia.
Although the full realization of advanced AI capabilities will extend beyond 2025, strategically integrating AI technologies will become increasingly important for banks.
Wikipedia is in many ways a bellwether of today’s kind of fraught relationship with facts and news and bias and key cultural issues. How does Wikimedia manage or engage with those issues?
As AI-generated slop takes over increasing swathes of the user-generated internet thanks to the rise of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT, spare a thought for Wikipedia editors.
The Wikimedia Foundation and Google-owned Kaggle give developers access to the site's content in a 'machine-readable format' so the bots don't scrape Wikipedia and stress its servers.