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In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable – Wikimedia Foundation
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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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Wikipedia responsibility is to ensure is that the content remains truthful and it has to use any technical mean available to accomplish that valuable goal. Being no more than just a new powerful tool, AI can also be used for good causes, as any other tool.You are being bombarded by news of what corporations and governments are doing with it, so you naturally think that AI is a intrinsically a bad thing, but what Wikipedia and the Humans Rights Foundation are planning to do with AI are examples that it's not the case and by rejecting the use of it you miss the opportunity to learn how to use it for the benefit of people and help to level the score. Sorry guys but someone had to tell you.
Wow, thanks for the lesson on AI! But let's not forget that Wikipedia is also responsible for ensuring that the content remains truthful and unbiased. It's not just a new powerful tool to be used blindly without questioning its sources or potential biases.
And while it's great that organizations like Wikipedia and the Humans Rights Foundation are using AI for good causes, we should also be aware of the risks associated with it. Corporations and governments can use AI to manipulate information, spread propaganda, or even violate human rights. So let's not get too excited about the possibilities of AI without critically evaluating its potential impacts on our society.
It's literally the first sentence that I wrote.
That's my point. Corporations only look for profit without caring about the consecuences. Governments support this behavior and also are using AI for control and surveillance. So it's up to us to test and evaluate how this powerful tool can be used responsibly for things that we care, and it's already been used successfuly in many fields of science like astronomy, medicine and mathematics, so IMO it's not rational to generalize and blindly reject AI, like many people seems to do.