When asked whether Wikipedia might consider blocking AI crawlers entirely, Wales acknowledged that it is a “possible but complicated” decision. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has urged major ...

In context: In their never-ending quest to build profitable AI services, Big Tech and startups are constantly scanning the internet for fresh, human-made content. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at ...

Wikipedia is asking AI companies to stop scraping its content and instead use its paid API to ensure proper credit and support for contributors. Wikipedia has sent a clear message to AI developer ...

Business Insider compared the Grokipedia and Wikipedia pages of five contentious issues. The online encyclopedias had widely different descriptions of Gamergate, but they were more similar on OpenAI.

Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday (local time) released an early version of 'Grokipedia' -- a platform he is pitching as an alternative to online encyclopedia Wikipedia. According to a report by The ...

The launch of Grokipedia by Elon Musk’s xAI is more than just a new tech product; it’s an architectural challenge to the established model of online knowledge. It pits the decentralized, ...

The free online encyclopedia tool, Wikipedia, has reported an 8 per cent decline in human pageviews compared with the same period in 2024, as generative AI, search engines, and social media platforms ...

As one of the most popular websites in the world, Wikipedia helps define our common understanding of just about everything. It’s the closest thing the internet has to a public utility. Founded in 2001 ...

Over 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,” he wrote.

Wikipedia’s co-founder sparked MAGA outrage by naming news sources the site has “blacklisted.” “The blacklisted sources are Breitbart, Daily Caller, Epoch Times, Fox News, New York Post, The ...