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Wikipedia is interested in being an online encyclopaedia. They are not obliged to accommodate the needs of AI researchers unless they want to.


I haven't seen anything yet on how much recent Wikipedia content is generated by systems like ChatGPT... it appears to be an issue however:

> "Wikipedians like Knipel imagine that ChatGPT could be used on Wikipedia as a tool without removing the role of humanity. For them, the initial text that’s generated from the chatbot is useful as a starting place or a skeletal outline. Then, the human verifies that this information is supported by reliable sources and fleshes it out with improvements. This way, Wikipedia itself does not become machine-written. Humans remain the project’s special sauce."

https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/chatgpt-wikipedia-artic...

This might create a kind of structural-organizational conformity in all articles, which doesn't sound so great.


i've been using it for proposal copywrite in the same manner.


Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I see it as these AI researchers pointing out how to attack Wikipedia, so Wikipedia is getting indirectly forced here.

Feels wrong to me.




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