Wikipedia is using (some) generative AI now

Wikipedia isn't replacing their quality editors with artificial quality yet - but they're giving them a spot 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 arsenic a means to assistance its unpaid and mostly unpaid unit of moderators, editors, and patrollers trim their workload and absorption much connected prime control.

In a statement, Chris Albon, the Director of Machine Learning astatine the foundation, emphasized that helium did not privation AI to regenerate their quality editors oregon extremity up generating Wikipedia's content. Rather, AI would beryllium utilized to "remove method barriers" and "tedious tasks" that impeded editors' workflow, specified arsenic inheritance research, translation, and onboarding caller volunteers. The hope, helium said, was to springiness editors the bandwidth to walk much clip connected deliberation and little connected method support. "We volition instrumentality a human-centered attack and volition prioritize quality agency; we volition prioritize utilizing open-source oregon open-weight AI; we volition prioritize transparency; and we volition instrumentality a nuanced attack to multilinguality," helium wrote.

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