Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. But it seems to me that rumors of the imminent “death of Wikipedia” at the hands of generative A.I. are ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free ...
The foundation that operates Wikipedia on Tuesday unveiled a new set of rules that aim to combat online harassment and misinformation on the digital platform. Wikimedia’s new “Universal Code of ...
Wikipedia, the beloved online encyclopedia, has debated for a while on how to handle the use of large language models (LLMs) in articles. Now, the practice is officially banned, save for a few ...
Let's say you were scanning the recent headlines and wanted to know when the East Wing of the White House was constructed. You might ask ChatGPT. Or maybe you'd just ...
Many in the academic world cast suspicious glares on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that users edit at will. But some Ohio State professors have embraced the technology and philosophy of the wiki.
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...
In its quest for Internet dominance, Google has scooped up JotSpot, a startup focused on using Wiki technology for business workgroups. While JotSpot was focused on business users, the Googlization of ...