GoKawiilAcademic urges scholars to defend Wikipedia against AI-driven traffic decline
Writing on the threat generative AI poses to Wikipedia, Helen Choi notes that chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT often answer queries directly, citing Wikipedia without prompting users to click through. She argues this reduces the readership Wikipedia depends on to recruit the volunteers who write, edit and maintain its articles, and calls on academics to actively support the platform given their stake in open knowledge.