Wikimedia, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and sister sites like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, just made it easier for AI models to tap into its massive knowledge base. Wikimedia Deutschland, the organization’s German chapter, released a new resource called the Wikidata Embedding Project. It takes the roughly 120 million open data points stored in Wikidata and […]
Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster
Elon Musk has long complained about Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced encyclopedia that’s considered a crown jewel of the internet. And now it seems like the billionaire is finally going to launch a competitor. “We are building Grokipedia @xAI,” Musk tweeted Tuesday. “Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the […]
MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs
In recent times, conservative forces have sought to take control of the information ecosystem in which we all live. In the case of social media, you can buy an existing platform (say, Twitter) or, in the case of Trump, simply start your own. In the case of public broadcasters like PBS and NPR, you can […]
Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia’s Nonprofit Status Over Alleged ‘Propaganda’
Between scrubbing government websites of information about everything from vaccine efficacy to LGBT health matters and the ongoing war with higher education, the Trump administration seems to have a problem with freely available information that doesn’t align with its particular ideology. That war on knowledge appears to have extended to Wikipedia. Earlier this week, a […]
Wikipedia Is Making a Dataset for Training AI Because It’s Overwhelmed by Bots
It seems that AI developers have essentially blackmailed Wikipedia into offering up its data for training. On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced it is partnering with Google-owned Kaggle—a popular data science community platform—to release a version of Wikipedia optimized for training AI models. Starting with English and French, the foundation will offer stripped down versions […]