Even as Wikipedia reckons with losing traffic to AI-generated summaries, its contents have been widely scraped to train the very LLMs that threaten to replace it.

Not to be left out of the rush to integrate generative AI into search, on Wednesday DuckDuckGo announced DuckAssist, an AI-powered factual summary service powered by technology from Anthropic and OpenAI. It is available for free today as a wide beta test ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. But it seems to me that rumors of the imminent “death of Wikipedia” at the hands of generative A.I. are greatly exaggerated. Sure, the implementation of A.I ...

Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have released the results of a study that found analyzing Wikipedia data can track influenza outbreaks faster than the traditional methods used by the Centers for Disease ...

Wikipedia has downgraded tech website CNET’s reliability rating following extensive discussions among its editors regarding the impact of AI-generated content on the site’s trustworthiness, as noted in a detailed report from Futurism. The decision ...