Artificial intelligence is killing Wikipedia.

The volunteer-run online encyclopedia just issued a stark warning: AI is exploiting the site’s data, siphoning off its traffic, and threatening its future. Contrary to what you were taught in middle school, Wikipedia is remarkably accurate . It’s used by doctors and professional fact-checkers. Even large language models (LLMs) and the AI products they power, such as Elon Musk’s new Wikipedia competitor “Grokipedia,” rely on the site for training data. That means all of us, including AI companies, would be worse off in a world without Wikipedia.

The good news is that we have an educational playbook to fight back. Wikipedia’s warning includes a plea for internet users to look for citations and click through to original sources.

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