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  19 hours ago

  Wikipedia Declares War on AI Slop

  futurism.com - Maggie Harrison Dupré

  The editors are fighting back. It's On AI slop threatens to degrade the useability of Wikipedia — and its editors are fighting back. As 404 Media …

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  Flipboard Canada

  Jul 9
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  Wikipedia explores AI-powered knowledge access with the ChatGPT plugin. Here’s how

  livemint.com

  Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, is exploring AI-powered knowledge access through a ChatGPT Plus plugin that searches and summarizes …

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  Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth (Published 2023)

  The New York Times - Jon Gertner

  In early 2021, a Wikipedia editor peered into the future and saw what looked like a funnel cloud on the horizon: the rise of GPT-3, a precursor to the new chatbots from OpenAI. When this editor — a prolific Wikipedian who goes by the handle Barkeep49 on the site — gave the new technology a try, he …

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  Kristen

  WikiBinge: Discover how all things are vaguely connected.

  wikibinge.com

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  This 33-year-old made more than 1,000 Wikipedia bios for unknown female scientists

  NBC News - By Timothy Harper, TODAY

  Jessica Wade began writing Wikipedia biographies about women and minority scientists who never got their due — from employers, from other scientists, from the public. When Jessica Wade was invited to Buckingham Palace to receive the prestigious British Empire Medal, she stood out for being a young …