Wikipedia has effectively paused its trial with AI-generated summaries after receiving strong criticism from its community of editors. This comes after the Wikimedia Foundation recently started testing short AI-generated summaries on the platform’s mobile app.

Wikipedia has paused an AI summary trial following harsh criticism from the platform's human editors. As 404 Media reports, Wikipedia began testing AI-generated summaries for mobile on June 2. Users who had the Wikipedia browser extension could see a "simple summary" appear on top of every article.

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.