"We're not asking for charity": Wikimedia CEO calls out AI for unpaid data use
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Wikipedia is starting to feel the effects of the AI-driven shift in how people find information, with page views falling 8% in the latest year, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan told Axios. Why it matters: Wikipedia is a crucial source of information for AI models, but those same models increasingly allow…
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Wikipedia is starting to feel the effects of the AI-driven shift in how people find information, with page views falling 8% in the latest year, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan told Axios. Why it matters: Wikipedia is a crucial source of information for AI models, but those same models increasingly allow…
Web traffic to left-wing Wikipedia have dropped as AI replaces the organization's page visits, according to Wikimedia Foundation chief Bernadette Meehan. The CEO called the woke encyclopedia "the backbone" of AI systems.
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- "We're not asking for charity": Wikimedia CEO calls out AI for unpaid data use (opens Axios in a new tab)
Wikipedia is starting to feel the effects of the AI-driven shift in how people find information, with page views falling 8% in the latest year, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan told Axios. Why it matters: Wikipedia is a crucial source of information for AI models, but those same models increasingly allow…
- Leftist Wikipedia Bemoans Traffic Lost to Chatbots, Labels Itself 'Backbone' of AI (opens Breitbart in a new tab)
Web traffic to left-wing Wikipedia have dropped as AI replaces the organization's page visits, according to Wikimedia Foundation chief Bernadette Meehan. The CEO called the woke encyclopedia "the backbone" of AI systems.


