Wikipedia has suspended the experiment with AI summarization of article content after a mostly negative reaction from the ...

You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots training on Wikipedia articles has put enormous strain on the organization's servers. To curb the influx ...

Wikipedia.org, for example, doesn't bother to block AI crawlers from Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic in its robots.txt file. It blocks a number of bots deemed troublesome for their penchant for ...

Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia ...

What just happened? Companies building AI-focused ventures have heavily mined Wikipedia's content, placing significant strain on its servers in the process. Now, the Wikimedia Foundation is ...

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 ...

Wikimedia will integrate generative AI into Wikipedia services. AI will assist in reducing the workload for human editors and volunteers. Focus will be on enhancing quality control and technical ...

The site’s human editors will have AI perform the “tedious tasks” that go into writing a Wikipedia article. The site’s human editors will have AI perform the “tedious tasks” that go ...

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.

Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been ...

Wikipedia's solution to the AI bot scraping deluge. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots ...