Wikipedia is using (some) generative AI now

Wikipedia isn’t replacing their human editors with artificial intelligence yet — but they’re giving them a bit of an AI boost. On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, announced that it was integrating generative AI into its editing process as a means to help its volunteer and largely unpaid staff of moderators, editors, and patrollers reduce their workload and focus more on quality control. In a statement, Chris Albon, the Director of Machine Learning at the foundation, emphasized that he did not want AI to replace their human editors or end up generating Wikipedia’s content. Rather, AI would be used to “remove technical barriers” and “tedious tasks” that impeded editors’ workflow, such as background research, translation, and onboarding new volunteers. The hope, he said, was to give editors the bandwidth to spend more time on deliberation and less on technical support. “We will take a human-centered approach and will prioritize human agency; we will ... Read full article.