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Wikipedia won’t let AI edit articles, cofounder says<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260622-wikipedia-won-t-let-ai-edit-articles-cofounder-says<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-22 12:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.france24.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The problem of AI “hallucinations” — in which fabricated output is confidently presented — has been reduced with newer AI models but remains “very, very bad”, Wales said on the sidelines of a climate action week event in London.<\/p>\n

He added, however, that AI agents could prove useful in alerting Wikipedia’s community of millions of editors to certain niche news that would otherwise be missed.<\/p>\n

“We would not let it edit directly because you can’t really trust it enough,” he said.<\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence platforms, meanwhile, rely on Wikipedia’s content to answer users’ questions.<\/p>\n

That has contributed to an overall growth in visitors to the site from AI bots, while human traffic has dropped eight percent.<\/p>\n

Wales, who sits on the board of trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, described the fall in human traffic as “meaningful” but “not a disaster,” for the online encyclopaedia, which ranks among the 10 most visited websites in the world.<\/p>\n

The site, created in 2001, depends on donations from users so its business model does not directly rely on traffic.<\/p>\n

Wales encouraged AI companies to “pay their fair share”, because “hammering us with millions of requests costs real money,” in the cost of running servers.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia has already been “very successful” in signing agreements with several tech giants, the founder said.<\/p>\n

“We’re starting to block the ones who aren’t behaving themselves, but we’ll see how that goes.”<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2026 AFP<\/p>\n

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