US Edition“Yuck”: Wikipedia Pauses AI Summaries After Editor Revolt
- The Wikimedia Foundation paused its AI-generated article summaries experiment on June 11, 2025, after testing it on mobile users who opted in.
- The pilot followed a Google rollout of similar AI summaries and faced backlash from volunteer editors concerned about planning and reputation risks.
- Editors criticized the summaries as unreliable and brand-damaging, urging more editor involvement and rejecting the rollout without prior discussion.
- A WMF spokesperson said the experiment aimed to make complex articles accessible, appeared for 10 percent of mobile users, and was influenced by editor feedback.
- The pause highlights Wikipedia's caution with AI integration, emphasizing future editor participation and the importance of maintaining trust and accuracy.
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For Lane Becker, president of Wikimedia LLC, Wikipedia's future is in part linked to the rise of generative artificial intelligence. A topic that creates turmoil in the online encyclopedia community.
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Wikipedia halts AI plans as editors revolt
An experiment adding AI-generated summaries to the top of Wikipedia pages has been paused, following fierce backlash from its community editors. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, confirmed this to 404 Media, which spotted the discussion on a page detailing the project. Introduced as "Simple Article Summaries" by the Web Team at Wikimedia, the project proposed AI-generated summaries as way "to make the wikis more accessibl…
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