"Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth"


The new A.I. chatbots have typically swallowed Wikipedia’s corpus. . . . While estimates of its influence can vary, Wikipedia is probably the most important single source in the training of A.I. models. "Without Wikipedia, generative A.I. wouldn’t exist," says Nicholas Vincent, Yet as bots like ChatGPT become increasingly popular and sophisticated, Vincent and some of his colleagues wonder what will happen if Wikipedia, outflanked by A.I. that has cannibalized it, suffers from disuse and dereliction.

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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.