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Brazil President's Wife Clashes With Elon Musk, Threatens To Sue X

This is not the first time that Musk has been involved in a Twitter feud with someone.

International Business Times UK

Even Wikipedia's founder thinks ChatGPT is a 'mess and doesn't work at all'

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, recently highlighted his concerns regarding OpenAI's AI-powered tool, especially its accuracy. The founder explained that using the tool to generate text on the platform was a mess as it did a terrible job since it got most of the details wrong and even provided inaccurate information.

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Wikipedia Founder Says ChatGPT-4 Is Terrible At Writing Wikipedia Articles

Despite criticising current generative AI models, Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales hasn't ruled out the idea of using AI for the free online encyclopedia.

International Business Times UK

Wikipedia founder slams Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter as a ‘huge problem’ and says it is ‘being overrun by trolls and lunatics’

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says X—once Twitter—is overrun by trolls under Elon Musk.

Fortune

Wikipedia founder warns against relying on ChatGPT — it makes too many mistakes

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says ChatGPT ‘isn’t good enough for a great many things’ and could take 30 years to reach human-level intelligence.

Tom’s Guide

Wikipedia cofounder takes a pop at Musk's X—and says he's never heard of Grok

The jibes were the latest round of a series of spats between the world's richest man Musk and the Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales.

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Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him

The X owner has no time for a democratic experiment dedicated to knowledge. He would rather yell puerile ‘jokes’ into the ether, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site

Citing "lack of transparency from Fandom [...] loss of features [...] and toxic company culture."

PC Gamer

Interviewing Jimmy Wales, Cofounder of Wikipedia

Episode 460 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason

Don't Blame Elon Musk for Turkey's Authoritarian Twitter Censorship

Anger about social media censorship should be directed at repressive governments, not the companies they threaten.

Reason

Elon's Turkey censorship: Tip of iceberg

Musk attacked for censoring Turkish opposition — but that's just one example of Twitter’s deference to government

Salon

Twitter Caved to Censorship Requests From Turkey's Authoritarian Government

Plus: Flight attendants report dad as human trafficker, the suburbs are thriving, and more...

Reason

Wikipedia founder blasts Elon Musk for caving to Turkey's censorship demands

Musk admitted he helped remove content from Twitter at the behest of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of Sunday's key elections.

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Zenger

Jimmy Wales Wonders If AI Could Be Next Editor-In-Chief Of Wikipedia — He Has One Problem Though

It appears tech website CNET might not be the only platform experimenting with OpenAI's ChatGPT and its incredible writing skills

Evening Standard

Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it

By now, even those of us who live under a rock have become familiar with ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot that can find us the answer to almost every question under the sun. It seems to be able to effortlessly write reports, compose letters or even poetry — for any subject…

Evening Standard

Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue?

The decade-long mission to broaden participation on the site has yielded results - but Alys Key examines why progress is still slow.

Glasgow Live

The humble Glasgow building that was named as Wikipedia's one millionth article

We've always known Glasgow's a one-in-a-million kind of place, but it was nice to see this confirmed when Wikipedia announced its one millionth article way back in 2006.

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The Conversation

Friday essay: shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article

In mid-July 2008, I arrived in hot and sticky Alexandria. I had travelled to Egypt to attend Wikimania. As the name suggests, Wikimania is an event for those who share an all-consuming passion for the wiki. But not just any wiki … the most important wiki of all: Wikipedia –…

Reason

What Wikipedia Can Teach the Rest of the Internet

Jimmy Wales talks about why his online encyclopedia works, how to improve social media, and why Section 230 isn't the real problem with the internet.

Reason

Jimmy Wales: What Wikipedia Got Right About Social Media

The co-founder of "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" talks about the power of decentralization and the rise in subscription models for journalism.

Reason

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Has Already Solved the Internet's Problems

The online encyclopedia's decentralized, Hayekian approach provides a model for Elon Musk as he assumes control of Twitter.

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