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Wikipedia now uses (some) generative artificial intelligence

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Wikipedia does not yet replace human editors with artificial intelligence – but they give them some AI strengthening. On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation, Non -Profit, which runs Wikipedia, announced that it is so Integration of generative artificial intelligence with the editing process As a way to aid a volunteer, and and to largely the unpaid personnel of moderators, editors and patrols, they reduce the burden of work and focus more on quality control.

In a statement, Chris Albon, machine learning director at the foundation, emphasized that he did not want AI to replace his human editors or finally generated the content of Wikipedia. Rather, artificial intelligence would be used to “remove technical barriers” and “tedious tasks” that hindered the flow of editors, such as background research, translation and recent volunteers on board. He said that the hope was to provide editors with capacity to spend more time on the meeting and less for technical support. “We will look at the approach focused on man and we will prioritize the human agency; we will be priority using the artificial intelligence of Open Source or open mass;

But the amount of information and content in the world quickly ahead of the number of active volunteers capable of moderating them, and Wikipedia is in the face of the future in which And it literally eats it alive. At the beginning of this month, the Wikimedia Foundation announced a new initiative to create a set of open -accessed data to the “structural content of Wikipedia” – that is, a copy of Wikipedia content optimized especially for machine learning – to maintain bots outside the site intended for human browsing. In recent years, the number of bots scraping the site has drastically scaled to such an extent Bot Movement actually charged its servers and increased bandwidth consumption by 50 percent.

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