Is ChatGPT just Wikiped-AI?

After threatening to replace humans in many sectors, generative AI is now targeting online platforms as well. Wikipedia is seeing a sharp decline in traffic as online users increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google AI overviews to get their info.

According to a new blog post by Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation, human page views are are down 8% these past few months “as compared to the same months in 2024.”

This troubling phenomenon came to light after Wikipedia’s bot detection systems seemed to show that “much of the unusually high traffic for the period of May and June was coming from bots that were built to evade detection.”

With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support

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