4+ hour, 24+ min ago  (546+ words) The internet's favorite encyclopedia has officially banned its 260,000 human editors from using artificial intelligence to write articles " a major crackdown as so-called "AI slop" floods the web. The new policy, approved by volunteers at the Wikimedia Foundation's flagship site Wikipedia,…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (607+ words) Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales personally intervened to block the site's users from editing a page titled "Gaza genocide" after describing the article as a "particularly egregious" violation of neutrality. "At present, the lede and the overall presentation state, in Wikipedia's…...

5+ mon, 4+ hour ago  (725+ words) Elon Musk has launched an early version of Grokipedia, his AI-powered digital encyclopedia built to rival Wikipedia " which he has slammed as "Wokipedia," accusing it of leftist bias. Named after his firm xAI's chatbot Grok, the new website went live…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (463+ words) Is ChatGPT just Wikiped-AI? After threatening to replace humans in many sectors, generative AI is now targeting online platforms as well. Wikipedia is seeing a sharp decline in traffic as online users increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google AI overviews…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (38+ words) Foreign desk: Europe Caves to Bullies on Speech Tech watch: Yes, Wikipedia Can Be Fixed Liberal: Ditch the Two-Party System Now Libertarian: Blame Randi & Co. " Not "Fascists" Gotham journal: Waymo"s Coming, Like It or Not...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (800+ words) Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger made waves this week when he discussed the crowdsourced website's outright censorship of conservative voices via a blacklist of banned news outlets. For me, Sanger's revelation came as no surprise: The news publication I founded and…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (339+ words) Elon Musk said Tuesday that his artificial intelligence firm xAI is building "Grokipedia" " an open-source digital encyclopedia to rival Wikipedia, which the tech tycoon has repeatedly accused of leftist bias. The Tesla founder boasted that the new encyclopedia " named after…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (351+ words) Jimmy Kimmel has been accused of abusing the publicly subsidized airwaves with his lies and propaganda, but the two million viewers he reaches each night is a pittance compared to the hundreds of millions each month who think they're getting…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (544+ words) Wikipedia has faced furious accusations of censorship after alleged attempts to delete a page on the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska by a homeless career criminal on board a train in Charlotte, North Carolina. Outrage erupted on social media…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (766+ words) This week, I had two separate meetings with people I'd never met before. In both, after the polite small talk, each confessed that before sitting down with me they had quickly "studied up" by glancing at my Wikipedia page. (Note…...