Wikipedia Launches Paid Platform, Urges AI Companies to Protect Human Content
It calls on AI developers to help accomplish the mission through two straightforward actions: attribution and financial support.
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Wikipedia on Monday announced its paid-for opt-in platform, Wikimedia Enterprise, aimed at encouraging AI developers and AI companies to use its content “responsibly” in order to preserve human-generated content. The announcement comes as a direct response to the rapid increase in AI-generated content, which heavily relies on the platform’s content.
According to SEO firm Graphite, currently over 50% of content on the internet is AI generated, also known as AI slops. The product will allow companies to use Wikipedia content at scale and sustainably support its nonprofit mission without severely taxing its servers.
Wikipedia calls on AI developers to help accomplish the mission through two straightforward actions: attribution and financial support. “Attribution means that generative AI gives credit to the human contributions that it uses to create its outputs. This maintains a virtuous cycle that continues those human contributions that create the training data these new technologies rely on,” read the blog.
“For people to trust information shared on the internet, platforms should make it clear where the information is sourced from and elevate opportunities to visit and participate in those sources. With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
In April, the organization released its AI strategy for editors, confirming that the technology will support, not replace, editors. AI will streamline workflows by automating tedious tasks to maintain knowledge integrity, improve information discoverability, and free human editors to devote more time to crucial deliberation. The plan also uses AI for automating translation and facilitating the onboarding and mentorship of new volunteers.
“Humans bring elements to knowledge creation that AI cannot replace. Current generative AI tools may be able to synthesize or summarize existing knowledge, but they cannot engage in the process of discussion, debate, and consensus that Wikipedia’s volunteer editors undertake every day,” the blog read.
Notably, Wikipedia has seen an 8% year-on-year decline in “human page views.” Elon Musk’s recently launched AI-powered online encyclopedia “Grokipedia” is said to be a direct competitor to that of Wikimedia Foundation’s.
