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Ar Xiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop
5+ hour, 12+ min ago (24+ words) Ar Xiv will ban authors of papers that have "incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation" for one year....
Media organizations are increasingly blocking the Wayback Machine.
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (181+ words) An analysis from Originality AI, an AI detection company, found that 23 big news sites block the Internet Archive's crawler, Wired reports. A USA Today spokesperson told the publication that the move "is not about specifically blocking the Internet Archive" but…...
Chat GPT isn't the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk's Grokipedia
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (311+ words) Google's Gemini, AI Mode, and AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft are starting to cite Musk's Wikipedia knockoff. Chat GPT is using Grokipedia as a source, and it's not the only AI tool to do so. Citations to Elon Musk's AI-generated…...
Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (217+ words) Wikipedia editors can only use AI for basic copy editing or translations. Wikipedia will no longer allow editors to write or rewrite articles using AI. The update, which was added to Wikipedia's guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for…...
The Wayback Machine is built for human readers.
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (209+ words) In an article for Techdirt, Wayback Machine director Mark Graham raises concerns about the impact of publications preventing the site from archiving their content due to AI scraping: > What concerns me most is the unintended consequence of these blocks. When…...
Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for "enterprise" access to Wikipedia
4+ mon, 18+ hour ago (298+ words) Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia's vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia Foundation announced the news as part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary on Thursday. The…...
Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors
4+ mon, 18+ hour ago (358+ words) The Verge It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articles that get almost 15 billion views each…...
Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, bias, and the "Gaza genocide" page
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (850+ words) Wikipedia is under attack " from accusations of bias, from AI scrapers, from Elon Musk " but the encyclopedia's founder believes that transparency is the key to survival. We spoke over video call about his book, how Wikipedia handles contentious topics, and…...
A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (306+ words) RSL 1. 0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web. An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an…...
Wikipedia is getting in on the yearly wrapped game
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (130+ words) Everyone is doing it, so why not Wikipedia? Everyone's favorite free online encyclopedia has decided to launch its own customized Year in Review feature on its mobile app. Of course, you'll need the app installed and have been using it…...