The internet’s largest stockpile of free knowledge is under threat from MAGA, A.I. and foreign autocrats. A bibliophile ...

This includes questions concerning the tools and methods Wikipedia utilizes to identify and stop malicious conduct that injects bias or undermines a neutral point of view on its platform. The US ...

Back when artificial intelligence was on the rise, AI scraping has been a massive problem as they were unlicensed and did not ask for the right permissions to access data from web sources, and that ...

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Selena Deckelmann argues that in this era of machine-generated content, Wikipedia becomes even more valuable. Selena Deckelmann has never been afraid of people on the internet. With a TV repairman and ...

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia’s servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...

Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of Wikipedia, on Tuesday named Bernadette Meehan its chief executive officer, tapping an administrator with deep policy expertise and federal government experience ...

As large language models absorb Wikipedia’s content without attribution, the world’s free encyclopedia finds itself at the center of the AI information economy—struggling to keep control over the ...

“In January 2017, we the constituents of Wikimedia, started an ambitious discussion about our collective future. We reflected on our past sixteen years together and imagined the impact we could have ...

Wikimedia, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and sister sites like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, just made it easier for AI models to tap into its massive knowledge base. Wikimedia Deutschland, the ...