Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking...
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Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
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Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
404 Media (www.404media.co)
well since they don’t have ads is it all bad news?
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well since they don’t have ads is it all bad news?
@futurebird @josephcox
Heh. Wikipedia has all the ads.
It has to to survive. They are all fundraising.
It opens pop-overs within moments every time I visit. -
@futurebird @josephcox
Heh. Wikipedia has all the ads.
It has to to survive. They are all fundraising.
It opens pop-overs within moments every time I visit.@ohmu @josephcox those kind aren’t against my religion. They are a direct appeal and so not unholy.
