2025-03-10
Go to a profile of any celebrity on Wikipedia and it's quite possible that you'll be met with a terrible photo of them. Such images are often old or out of focus, perhaps captured candidly on a smartphone at a public event. A group of volunteer photographers has set out to fix that, as [...]
2025-06-13
Wikipedia is backing off a plan to test AI article summaries. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to trial the feature for about 10 percent of mobile web visitors. To say they weren' [...]
2025-05-08
The Wikimedia Foundation, hosts of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is challenging an aspect of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA). The law aims to protect users from harmful online [...]
2025-04-17
Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been hav [...]
2025-08-30
Meta hosted several AI chatbots with the names and likenesses of celebrities without their permission, according to Reuters. The unauthorized chatbots that Reuters discovered during its investigation [...]
2025-08-10
The WikiProject AI Cleanup team has published a guide to help Wikipedia editors spot AI-generated writing.<br /> The article Here’s how to spot AI writing, according to Wikipedia editors appea [...]
2025-05-02
The Wikimedia Foundation unveils its new AI strategy focused on empowering volunteer contributors with tools for moderation, translation, and onboarding.<br /> The article Generative AI will hel [...]
2025-08-08
Gemini has been acting strangely for some users over the past few weeks. There are multiple reports online of users getting responses from Gemini that are oddly self-flagellating. A screenshot from an [...]
2025-07-08
Amazon has asked its white collar employees to help fulfill grocery deliveries for Prime Day, according to The Guardian. The company has reportedly sent out a Slack message to its corporate workers in [...]