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Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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Remember you can download all of Wikipedia in your language and safely store it on a drive buried in your backyard, for after they rewrite history and eliminate freedom of speech.
What about any of this remotely connects to "rewriting history and eliminating freedom of speech?"
It's AI involved in the process of editing articles.
Which is not relevant to the actual use case for AI being discussed. There's no direct AI involvement in editing articles being proposed here.