The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, made the unfortunate decision to announce the process of a new AI-fed article generator this week. The editors’ reaction of the site was so fast and so vindictive that the organization quickly returned its idea, announcing a temporary “break” of the new function.
A spokesman on behalf of the Foundation-which is mostly separate from the decentralized community of editors who populate the site with articles-cleared last week, to try to make wikis “more accessible to readers worldwide through various projects around content exposure”, the organization planned “,” like many other organizations that were plagued by new automatic functions. The answers that are Posted to the open websiteIt’s really something to see.
“What the hell? No, absolutely no,” said one editor. “Not in any form or form. Not on any device. Not in any version. I don’t even know where to start with everything that is wrong with this nonsense pr -hype -stunt.”
“This will destroy any reputation for precision we currently have,” another editor said. “People won’t read beyond the AI -Lanugo to see what we really intended.”
Yet another editor was even more vehement: “Keep AI outside Wikipedia. That’s all. WMF employees looking to combine their resumes with AI-related projects need to look for new employers.”
“A really terrible idea,” said another. “Because all WMF proposals Steamroller despite what the actual community says, I hope I will at least see the survey and that – unlike some WMF surveys – it includes one or more options to answer” No “.
“Are you (by that, I mean WMF) Trying To kill Wikipedia? Because this is a good step in this way, “another editor said.” We try to keep AI Out From Wikipedia, there are no powers that force it on us and tell us we like it. ”
The forum is filled with countless other negative responses from editors who expressed a categorical rejection of the tool. Not much afterwards, the organization paused the function, 404 media reported.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has explored ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers worldwide,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesman Said 404 media. “This two-week, eligible experiment focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open Heavy Aya model of Cohere.
