Wikipedia was the punchline to jokes when I was young - ‘where did you look that up, Wikipedia?’. Then it became reputable, durable, and relatively incorruptible given the slush of bullshit everywhere else. Now it is staking out its patch for the human mind and its capacity to write and to reason. It’s one of the greatest achievements in the history of human knowledge, and the greatest information achievement of the digital age.
Wikipedia just banned AI-generated content across 7.1 million articles.
Not because AI cannot produce text. Because Wikipedia’s value comes from human editorial judgement: sourcing, neutrality, verifiability, consensus. AI can generate plausible sentences. It cannot evaluate whether those sentences are true.
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