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Is Wikipedia a good source? 2 college librarians explain when to use the online encyclopedia – and when to avoid it

What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia?

The Conversation

GPT-4 shouldn’t worry anybody – we just need to be better

Text generators have been around for years, but they’ve finally gotten good. Where previous iterations required a heavy edit, the latest version of ChatGPT from OpenAI writes with better grammar than I – sorry, me. But both chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the newly launched GPT-4 also…

IT Pro

Evolution not revolution: why GPT-4 is notable, but not groundbreaking

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated GPT-4 model. Excitingly, the company also made it immediately available to the public through a paid service.

The Conversation

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Norena Shopland: The woman who has dedicated her life to uncovering Wales' LGBTQ+ history

Norena Shopland is a leading historian specialising in LGBTQ+ history, but she said women were often forgotten in texts on the past

Wales Online

Mary Wollstonecraft: an introduction to the mother of first-wave feminism

Mary Wollstonecraft has had something of a revival in recent years.

The Conversation

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.

Evening Standard

‘The internet’s sewer’: why Turkey blocked its most popular social site

Chaotic free speech on Ekşi Sözlük finally proved too much after devastating earthquakes hit country

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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.

Glasgow Live

'Sockpuppets' created puffery about Adani, says Wikipedia

NEW DELHI: For more than a decade, sockpuppets - some of them being company employees - created 'puffery' around tycoon Gautam Adani, his family and the apples-to-airport group he helmed by adding non-neutral material and removing warnings from information on Wikipedia, the free internet-based encyclopedia has alleged.

The Times of India

Matty Healy under fire for podcast mocking Scots language and Japanese people

THE 1975 singer Matty Healy has provoked backlash from fans after a number of inflammatory remarks were made during a recent podcast.

The National (Scotland)

Seven times ChatGPT has been accidentally or genuinely funny

From dissing Google, to being unsure if a man who died in 1956 is still alive — the AI bot has been unwittingly entertaining

Evening Standard

Tyler Cowen: How should you talk to ChatGPT? A user’s guide

About 100 million people used ChatGPT in the month of January, according to one estimate, which would be the fastest-growing user base ever. Yet I often speak to people who are less than impressed with ChatGPT, citing its mistakes and banalities, and they suggest it is a passing fad.

Tribune News Service

Pakistan blocks Wikipedia, says it hurt Muslim sentiments

A spokesperson for Pakistan’s media regulator says it has blocked Wikipedia for hurting Muslim sentiment by not removing allegedly blasphemous content

The Independent UK

It’s so easy to cheat with technology that even judges are doing it

Everyone uses Wikipedia, but should it really be affecting what happens in court?

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Pakistan blocks Wikipedia over ‘blasphemous content’

Wikipedia was blocked in Pakistan on Saturday after authorities censored the website for hosting “blasphemous content” in the latest blow to digital rights in the deeply conservative country.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan blocks Wikipedia citing ‘sacrilegious’ content

Regulator says the website had until late Friday to heed its warning about ‘sacrilegious content’.

The Times of India

Wikipedia ordered to remove ‘blasphemous’ content in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Wikipedia will be blocked in Muslim-majority Pakistan if the platform fails to take down content deemed to be sacrilegious within 48 hours, the country’s telecoms regulator said.

Bangkok Post

Wikipedia Middle East editors ban shows risks for creators

BEIRUT: Rights groups have accused the Saudi Arabian government of "infiltrating" and seeking to control Wikipedia, after the Wikimedia Foundation banned 16 users for engaging in "conflict of interest editing" in the Middle East and North Africa.

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ChatGPT sparks cheating, ethical concerns as students try realistic essay writing technology

A new artificial intelligence chatbot that can generate realistic, human-like text is causing intense debate among educators, with schools, universities and students divided about whether it poses a threat to learning or will enhance it.

Wales Online

Warning over TikTok hacks that can get you thrown out of university

Students are turning to social media for help, but could find themselves barred from their courses

Daily Mirror

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney crack joke at Gateshead's expense ahead of Wrexham tie

Gateshead have been mocked by Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, as they tweeted out a promotional video which poked fun at the National League side on Monday

Salon

AI chatbots can write, but can't think

Chatbots like GPT-3 don’t actually know what words mean, despite creating a convenient illusion

WEKU

We asked, you answered: More global buzzwords for 2023, from precariat to solastalgia

After we published our list of terms likely to loom large in this year's vocabulary, readers submitted their own nominations. Here's a sampling.

The Independent UK

Wikipedia page with George Santos’s ‘alias’ appears to admit his drag queen past

Santos is under fire for series of alleged untruths concerning his background

The Conversation

2022 wasn't the year of Cleopatra – so why was she the most viewed page on Wikipedia?

At the end of every year, I gather statistics on the most viewed Wikipedia articles of the year. This helps me, a computational social scientist, understand what topics captured the most attention and gives me a chance to reflect on the major public events of the year. I try to…

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