Generative AI is reshaping how knowledge is made, found, and trusted. A new white paper written with Wikimedia CH maps how the Wikimedia movement can keep its agency.
The paper findings will be discussed at #Wikimania2026 on 25 July, during the session "Knowledge Commons AI Consortium: developing a roadmap for collective intelligence” https://openfuture.eu/publication/wikimedia-the-commons-and-the-new-ai-knowledge-loop/
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Is this then a Position Paper from Wikipedia.org / Wikimedia - over all dealing with AI / KI use within Wikipedia.
Personally I liked it better when the answer was "No", Not Allowed. ( at all. )
The true spirit of Wikipedia.
@Davida this is a conversation starter. Next steps will be shared soon.
I disagree fundamentally with the notion that so-called "GenAI" should play any role, and that such inherently flawed and only superficially dazzling technology can play any positive role, as a core part of "the knowledge loop".
Using the output merely degrades quality.
Also, there is no "AI era". That's a ridiculous notion that lends this extremely overblown "tool" more importance than it deserves.
And the notion that there is no "collective intelligence" without this crap is simply an incredible insult to everyone who has been taking part in cooperative knowledge creation, successfully and with dedication, without "AI".
As if we desperately *needed* text extruding machines for that.
@quincy thanks for sharing your thoughts. If you read the paper, you'll see that many of your points are addressed.
The purpose of this publication is to serve as a starting point for conversations about how the Wikimedia projects can avoid becoming a "dark commons."
@quincy the white paper does not support the notion that "there is no collective intelligence without AI."
In fact, we published another paper earlier this year about that specific tension, titled "Collective Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence": https://openfuture.eu/publication/collective-intelligence-vs-artificial-intelligence/.
