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How Wikipedia is surviving in the age of ChatGPT


Faced with advances in artificial intelligence, volunteers at the great online encyclopedia are strengthening their control to prevent the site from being filled with misinformation or promotional content

But then you read it, and discover the redundancies that a person is often able to detect in texts made with artificial intelligence,” says García, referring to taglines and a certain way of presenting information, with hackneyed introductions and conclusions. Chris Albon, director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation, which controls Wikipedia, points out that since 2002 some volunteers have used AI tools, especially in redundant tasks. Wikipedia’s model, based on debate, consensus and strict rules for citing [sources], has proven resilient in maintaining content quality over the past two decades,” says Albon.

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