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“We’ve had artificial-intelligence tools and bots since 2002, and we’ve had a team dedicated to machine learning since 2017,” Selena Deckelmann, Wikimedia’s chief technology officer, told me. “They’re extremely valuable for semiautomated content review, and especially for translations.

Some Wikipedians remark that their endeavor works in practice, but not in theory.

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.

Specific AI system regulations, such as the European AI Act or the AI Bill of Rights in the United States (both of which have yet to be adopted), may include rules that govern the development and management of AI training datasets. Other laws are also applicable. The Digital Services Act, recently adopted in the European Union, requires platforms... See more

Wikipedia marked its 22nd anniversary in January. It remains, in many ways, a throwback to the Internet’s utopian early days, when experiments with open collaboration — anyone can write and edit for Wikipedia — had yet to cede the digital terrain to multibillion-dollar corporations and data miners, advertising schemers and social-media... See more