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Wikipedia is using (some) generative AI now. The site’s human editors will have AI perform the “tedious tasks” that go into writing a Wikipedia article.
The site’s human editors will have AI help them with the “tedious tasks” that go into writing a Wikipedia article.
Tina Nguyen is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, announced that it was integrating generative AI into its editing process as a means to help its volunteer and largely unpaid staff of moderators, editors, and patrollers reduce their workload and focus more on quality control. In recent years, the Wikimedia Foundation has attempted to make life easier for their volunteer workers, from adding new features to improve the editing experience, to offering them legal protection from right-wing harassment campaigns.
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