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Andy Edser

Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it 'would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source'

Logo of Wikipedia is seen in Ankara, Turkey on November 30, 2019. .

AI summaries are all up in our search engines these days, and I think it's fair to say the response has been varied to date. The Wikipedia editor community, however, appears to have taken a strong stance on a recently proposed experiment by the Wikimedia Foundation to add AI-generated summaries at the top of Wiki articles, causing the test to be paused for now.

“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source" said Wikipedia editor Cremastura (via 404 Media). "Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent."

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