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fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago
Artificial intelligence

One of the Internet's Most Iconic Websites Just Took a Bold Stand. The Rest Should Follow.

fromFuturism
5 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely

Artificial intelligence
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

One of the Internet's Most Iconic Websites Just Took a Bold Stand. The Rest Should Follow.

Wikipedia has banned all A.I.-generated text from its articles, allowing only limited use for proofreading and translation.
Media industry
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing | TechCrunch

Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text for article content but allows limited AI use for copyediting with human review.
fromFuturism
5 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely

Artificial intelligence
fromNieman Lab
1 week ago

"I was surprised how upset some people got": A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia

A bot named TomWikiAssist created Wikipedia articles autonomously, alarming human editors who subsequently blocked its contributions.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Why every scientist needs a librarian

Academic libraries have transformed into dynamic research hubs offering expert librarianship, technologies, coding, maker spaces, and data support that accelerate scientific research.
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fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month ago

The Internet Still Works: Wikipedia Defends Its Editors

Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook how it works in practice. To mark its 30th anniversary, EFF is interviewing leaders of online platforms about how they handle complaints, moderate content, and protect their users' ability to speak and share information.
Law
Software development
fromEngadget
1 month ago

A developer turned Wikipedia into a social media-style feed

Xikipedia displays Simple English Wikipedia entries in a social-feed style, personalizing locally without collecting data to offer a less negative browsing alternative.
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fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
World news

Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
World news

Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others | TechCrunch

fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 about the mysterious website's anonymous maintainer. In a request for comment page, Wikipedia's volunteer editors were presented with three options. Option A is to remove or hide all Archive.today links and add the site to the spam blacklist. Option B is to deprecate Archive.today, discouraging future link additions while keeping the existing archived links. Option C is to do nothing and maintain the status quo.
Information security
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Six more AI outfits sign for Wikimedia's fastest APIs

The org revealed the new partnerships in a post celebrating its 25th birthday, and which points out it is among the world's ten most-visited websites, and the only one to be run by a nonprofit. The post notes that 250,000 editors work on at least one Wikipedia article each month, and that editors make 324 changes each minute as they contribute to the 65 million-plus articles the site contains. 1.5 billion unique devices reach Wikipedia each month.
Artificial intelligence
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

To work around those rules, the Humanizer skill tells Claude to replace inflated language with plain facts and offers this example transformation: Before: "The Statistical Institute of Catalonia was officially established in 1989, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of regional statistics in Spain." After: "The Statistical Institute of Catalonia was established in 1989 to collect and publish regional statistics." Claude will read that and do its best as a pattern-matching machine to create an output that matches the context of the conversation or task at hand.
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fromWIRED
2 months ago

A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to 'Humanize' Chatbots

Humanizer is an open-source Claude Code skill that instructs the AI to avoid 24 Wikipedia-identified language and formatting patterns associated with AI-generated text.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 months ago

After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them

Wikipedia is licensing its collection of over 65 million articles to major AI companies through a paid Enterprise program to recoup costs and fund operations.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

This plugin uses Wikipedia's AI-spotting guide to make AI writing sound more human

Humanizer modifies AI outputs to remove Wikipedia-identified AI tells, making text sound more naturally human and updating automatically with the guide.
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