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The key is that knowledge is a human endeavor, and the development of Wikipedia and its sister projects depends on human collaboration and consensus. Machine learning tools can augment the process, but AI cannot replace volunteer Wikimedians.

Copyright rules, in -cluding open licensing frameworks, should be viewed as “the floor,” or a starting point for further governance; other modes of ordering and regulating behavior must also be considered. In particular, most of the issues framed as responsible or ethical AI fall beyond the scope of copyright law, and copyright-based tools are not... See more

opening assets is just one part of a broader goal to enable and nurture creative communities. And that this perspective gives a different way of viewing the largest digital platforms, and a more targeted response to their dominance.

We could be facing a world in which AI-model interfaces are the new gatekeepers of knowledge, and people are prompting chatbots instead of reading encyclopedias

We have a real change in what’s going on. We have at least a fire drill to go and say, “What kind of world do we want to live in?” In a world that’s got a lot of different points of view going on

they view the encyclopedia as a “consensus truth,” as one of them put it: It acts as a reality check in a society where facts are increasingly contested. That truth is less about data points — “How old is Joe Biden?” — than about complex events like the Covid-19 pandemic, in which facts are constantly evolving, frequently distorted and furiously... See more