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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. It’s fair to say Beijing is on icy terms with Wikipedia. Back in 2015, Beijing deployed its Great Firewall to ...
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 ...