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Wikipedia’s AI experiment ran into fierce backlash from its own editors, forcing the Wikimedia Foundation to hit pause.
"AI Summaries" was Wikipedia's version of integrating generative artificial intelligence into its platform to better help users understand a specific page without having to sift through the entire ...
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 ...
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 ...
But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and ... No, the spike in usage came from AI crawlers, or automated programs ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wikipedia has created a machine-readable version of its corpus specifically tailored for AI training. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto/Getty On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced it is ...
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 ...