A look at the Wikipedia community's debates about AI, including AI's threats and potential benefits, knowledge creation, truthfulness, and legal concerns
Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?
“The responses from large language models can resemble an information smoothie that goes down easy but contains mysterious ingredients.” — A new favorite quote from this NY Times article about #Wikipedia and concerns about AI. I love the idea of an “information smoothie”! — …
Remarkable article on the threats posed to #Wikipedia by #LLMs. Should only reinforce our respect for this global cathedral of knowledge. We shouldn't let it be replaced by seemingly fancier AI skyscrapers. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Enjoyed talking to @jongertner on background for this important story. I joke that before LLMs hallucinate it all up irrevocably, Wikipedia—and indeed the entire current as-yet uncontaminated web—should be stored safely in that Norwegian seed bank..🙄 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Don't miss this fascinating dive by @jongertner into the future of Wikipedia in an A.I. age. Its massive dataset will be crucial to teaching chatbots not to hallucinate — but will those chatbots then render Wikipedia irrelevant? https://www.nytimes.com/...
For the past few months I've been working on an @nytmag story about Wikipedia and human-generated knowledge in an age of AI. It's up today. https://www.nytimes.com/...