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Wikipedia has downgraded tech website CNET's reliability rating following extensive discussions among its editors regarding the impact of AI-generated content on the site's trustworthiness, as ...
Could artificial intelligence be the future of more reliable open-source encyclopedias like Wikipedia? A recent study in Nature Machine Intelligence suggests it might just be the answer. Researchers ...
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. Be ...
An experiment adding AI-generated summaries to the top of Wikipedia pages has been paused, following fierce backlash from its community editors. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind ...
The impact isn’t theoretical. The foundation says that when former US President Jimmy Carter died in December 2024, his Wikipedia page predictably drew millions of views.
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.
Wikipedia’s edit and page-view metrics can demonstrate such impact. Meanwhile, reviewing and editing Wikipedia during a research project can help to highlight knowledge gaps, contextualize ...