In our increasingly enshittified online experience, the last bastions of the Internet’s initial egalitarian promise shine like diamonds. These holdout Golden Era vestiges somehow remain useful and unadulterated…
Read more An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a ‘Cartoon Imitation’ of WikipediaTurning 25 amid an A.I. boom, Wikipedia is racing to protect traffic, volunteers and revenue without losing its mission. Photo illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Traffic…
Read more At 25, Wikipedia Navigates a Quarter-Life Crisis in the Age of A.I.In the age of generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted search engines, Wikipedia remains an information repository authored by humans. Elon Musk, billionaire and former advisor to President Donald…
Read more Grokipedia copies Wikipedia, but omits referencesOn Monday, Elon Musk’s xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in…
Read more Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking PointsGrokipedia, Elon Musk’s alternative to Wikipedia, sparked to life on Monday afternoon. Then it went dark again. Then it sparked to life again Monday evening. As of this…
Read more Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s What the Difference IsWikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is…
Read more Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video | TechCrunchOver at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic,”…
Read more Wikipedia Is Getting Pretty Worried About AIThe Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, says that shifts in how people search for information online are cutting into its human traffic. In a blog post…
Read more AI Is Killing Wikipedia’s Human TrafficWikimedia is sounding the alarm on the impact AI is having on reliable knowledge and information on the internet. In a , Wikimedia’s senior director of product, Marshall…
Read more Wikimedia says AI bots and summaries are hurting Wikipedia’s trafficElon Musk says his company xAI is planning an alternative to Wikipedia. He first mentioned the so-called “Grokipedia” after Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who has been critical of…
Read more Why Elon Musk Says He’s Starting ‘Grokipedia’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…
Read more Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a DisasterVan Lathan and Rachel Lindsay start today’s episode by bringing back a previous topic to talk about the disappointing update and regrets (02:48). They give their take on…
Read more Jonathan Majors’s Interview, Wikipedia Plagiarism, and ApologiesThe list of Wikipedia‘s top 25 most-viewed pages in 2023 is out — charting the curiosity of the internet and serving as a barometer of the world’s shared…
Read more ChatGPT Tops Wikipedia's 25 Most Visited Pages in 2023 | EntrepreneurPowered by Advanced Search Technology Used With Google and Other Search Engines to Find More Relevant Search Results Press Release – updated: Apr 11, 2017 Placentia, CA, April…
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