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Plausible mistakes: Wikipedia boss says don't trust AI

Artificial intelligence could make our lives better, according to Wikipedia's founder, but it's still far from being a reliable source of information.

AAP

Wikipedia founder brands Australia’s social media ban an ‘unmitigated disaster’ and ‘embarrassment’

Jimmy Wales remembers a toxic internet even before social media and says AI is ‘not a disaster’ for the free – and freely edited - online encyclopaedia

The Guardian - AU

Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia

Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits

The Guardian - US

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Bitcoin Below $10K, Warns Wikipedia Founder – Calls It a 'Complete Failure'

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales predicts Bitcoin's potential decline as a currency by 2050, sparking debate in the crypto community.

International Business Times UK

Can You Trust Wikipedia?

Wikipedia shapes our perception of reality today more than ever before because it informs the large language models like ChatGPT. But can we really trust it?

Reason

Wikipedia turns 25, still boasting zero ads and over 7 billion visitors per month despite the rise of AI and threats of government repression

The Ming Dynasty Yongle Encyclopedia is quietly seething.

PC Gamer

Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors

Wikipedia is 25. Founded on this day in 2001, this community contributor driven site has convincingly usurped what were once the default general reference works of choice, like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta.

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Wikipedia signs deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, saying AI firms should pay 'fair share'

The founder of the platform says large language models have been ‘hammering’ Wikipedia’s servers and AI companies should “chip in and pay fair share”.

Euronews

Wikipedia commemorates 25th anniversary by inking AI licensing deals

Wikipedia, the ninth most visited site globally, boasts over 65 million articles in 300 languages, maintained by some 250,000 volunteers

The Independent UK

Wikipedia at 25: can its original ideals survive in the age of AI?

Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed “web 2.0”. The world wide web of the 1990s had largely been read-only: static pages, hand-built homepages, portal sites with content from a few publishers.

The Conversation

Elon Musk Says Grokipedia 'Is Growing' After Surging to 1.8M Articles in Two Months

Elon Musk says Grokipedia 'is growing' as his Wikipedia rival reaches 1.8M articles with 71K AI-approved edits in just two months.

International Business Times UK

Wikipedia Cofounder Slams Elon Musk's Grokipedia As 'Thumb On The Scales'

Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales warns Elon Musk's Grokipedia may lack trust, calling it a biased AI encyclopedia.

International Business Times UK

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales blows his top and hits da bricks 45 seconds into an interview, shouting 'It's a stupid question!' as he walks offstage

It was the first question.

PC Gamer

Five Great Reads: the ‘good guy’ behind Wikipedia, the lost art of flirting, and a war photographer’s greatest shots

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Jimmy Wales: I have an idea which will save democracy. It's not what you think

To save democracy, here’s a mantra we should all live by

International Business Times UK

Jimmy Wales Warns Elon Musk's 'Grokipedia' Will Make 'Massive Errors' Amid Plagiarism Claims

Elon Musk's new AI encyclopaedia, Grokipedia, faces backlash for 'copy-paste' plagiarism and 'massive errors.' Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales warns of its unreliable, AI-generated content and lack of citations.

Axios

Elon Musk's Wikipedia rival site live after crashing on launch day

Grokipedia was live again this evening, with almost 900,000 articles.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: US and China agree ‘framework’ for trade deal ahead of Xi-Trump meeting

US treasury secretary anticipates tariff truce with China will be extended, and that Beijing will revive substantial purchases of US soybeans. Plus, is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?

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The Guardian - UK

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?

In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon Musk branding it ‘Wokipedia’ and AI looming large, can it survive?

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia To Give The World 'Unfiltered Facts' - A Win Over Wikipedia, Or Just Hype?

Elon Musk has unveiled Grokipedia, an AI-powered rival to Wikipedia. Is it the future of knowledge — or just another flashy experiment?

International Business Times

Musk, Wikipedia Founder In Row Over How To Describe 'Nazi Salute'

The gesture was controversial enough, but now come the sub-controversies: Elon Musk is trolling Wikipedia and encouraging its defunding after a description of his recent flourish, seen by some as a Hitler salute, appeared on the encyclopedic website.

Latin Times

Elon Musk Among Tech Billionaires Aiming to 'Defund' Wikipedia, Calling It 'An Extension of Legacy Media Propaganda'

Elon Musk and a cohort of tech billionaires are rallying together to delegitimize Wikipedia.

The Independent UK

Elon Musk furious after Wikipedia page calls his controversial gesture a ‘Nazi salute’

‘Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!’ Musk spouted on his social media platform X

PC Gamer

Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars'

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, actor Mark Ruffalo, and more have endorsed Free Our Feeds.

Fortune

Hollywood stars and geeks unite to billionaire-proof social media

The likes of Mark Ruffalo and Jimmy Wales are backing the Free Our Feeds project, to ensure Bluesky's tech will thrive even if the company goes bad.

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