Wikipedia has updated its guidelines to prohibit editors from using artificial intelligence to write or rewrite article content. The English-language version of the site introduced the change after months of editors struggling with a rise in AI-generated articles. The new policy stems from a finding that text produced by large language models (LLMs) frequently breaks …
Wiki Education has concluded that editors should never copy and paste content from AI chatbots like ChatGPT directly into Wikipedia articles, following an extensive investigation into AI-generated content on the platform. LiAnna Davis, representing Wiki Education, reports in a detailed blog post that the organization discovered a troubling pattern after analyzing thousands of articles created …
Mathias Schindler, a longtime Wikipedia contributor and co-founder of Wikimedia Germany, reports on a troubling discovery at the 39C3 conference in Hamburg. While developing a tool to check ISBN checksums in German Wikipedia, he uncovered a significant problem: articles containing completely fabricated literature references generated by large language models. The issue emerged when Schindler found …
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia, is experiencing a dangerous decline in human traffic. The foundation attributes this to generative AI chatbots and search engines summarizing Wikipedia content directly for users. Emanuel Maiberg reports for 404 Media. This trend means people get information without visiting the online encyclopedia, which threatens its long-term sustainability. …
The Wikimedia Foundation is addressing the rise of artificial intelligence with a dual approach, releasing a human rights assessment on AI’s potential impact while a new project makes its data more useful for AI developers. Assessing Potential Risks The foundation published a Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) to analyze how AI could affect projects like …
The Wikimedia Foundation has paused its trial of AI-generated article summaries following fierce opposition from Wikipedia editors. The experiment would have shown machine-generated summaries at the top of articles on mobile devices for two weeks. Emanuel Maiberg reports for 404 Media that editors called the plan a “very bad idea” and warned it would cause …
The Wikimedia Foundation has unveiled a new artificial intelligence strategy that emphasizes the central role of human volunteers in Wikipedia’s knowledge ecosystem. According to Chris Albon und Leila Zia, the organization is committed to using AI to enhance rather than replace the work of Wikipedia’s editors. In their post Albon and Zia emphasized that the …