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2Jul/25Off

Inside Wikipedia’s AI Revolt

Before generative AI, if you wanted an inexpensive way to build out lots of content, you launched a wiki.

You’d spin up a site—broad or niche—and throw the doors open for anyone to edit. ... The catch with wikis is that when you hand the reins to the crowd, keeping quality consistent becomes a serious challenge. In Wikipedia’s case, that’s meant taking stewardship to heart, relying on a small army of editors—mostly volunteers—to manage millions of community-driven pages. ...

The newsrooms getting this right—Reuters, The New York TimesThe Washington Post—deploy AI thoughtfully and deliberately: team by team, sometimes even user by user, doing the hard work of winning people over before introducing new experiences. ...

See the full story here: https://www.fastcompany.com/91360473/wikipedia-ai-revolt-media

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