"The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site."

Generative AI keeps on ruining everything.

#AI #genai #LLM #wikipedia #internet #tech #news

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

"The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site."

Generative AI keeps on ruining everything.

#AI #genai #LLM #wikipedia #internet #tech #news

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

There is a #Wikipedia draft for #Blacksky over at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blacksky

It could use some love from someone who actually understands what it is and how the #ATprotocol and #bluesky work (which would not be me).

Pretty much any additions appreciated, but please don't remove sources, since that's an existential threat to a wikipedia article.

There is a #Wikipedia draft for #Blacksky over at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Blacksky

It could use some love from someone who actually understands what it is and how the #ATprotocol and #bluesky work (which would not be me).

Pretty much any additions appreciated, but please don't remove sources, since that's an existential threat to a wikipedia article.

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

#Wikipedia #AI

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

#Wikipedia #AI

I’ve spent the better part of two decades dealing with people trying to dox and harass the volunteers who make Wikipedia the incredible resource it is today.

I liked it better when they weren’t in Congress.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/082725-letter-to-Wikimedia.pdf

#Wikipedia#USpol

it's like when you miss a cool number on the odometer

1,111,092 more to go, i guess!

#Wikipedia