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The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, made the unfortunate decision to announce the trial of a new AI-fueled article generator this week. The backlash from the site’s editors was so swift and so vengeful that the organization quickly walked back its idea, announcing a temporary “pause” of the new feature.

AI-generated summaries are low-hanging fruit for apps and services that want to jump on the AI bandwagon, as we’ve seen with Copilot, Google Drive, Amazon, and Adobe Acrobat. Recently, even the Wikimedia Foundation gave it a go with AI summaries in Wikipedia.