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A 2016 research project called "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence" named Wikipedia as a key early project for understanding the interplay between artificial intelligence applications and human engagement.<ref>{{cite web |title=AI Research Trends - One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) |url=https://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report/section-i-what-artificial-intelligence/ai-research-trends |website=ai100.stanford.edu |language=en}}</ref>
 
There is a concern about the lack of [[Creative Commons license#Attribution|attribution]] to Wikipedia articles in large-language models like ChatGPT.<ref name="nyt180724">{{cite news |title=Wikipedia's Moment of Truth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html |access-date=29 November 2024 |work=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Wikipedia Built the Internet’s Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit. |url=https://observer.com/2025/03/wikimedia-foundation-execs-speak-on-ai-scraping-attribution-and-wikipedias-future/ |access-date=2 April 2025 |work=Observer |date=28 March 2025|quote=Attributions, however, remain a sticking point. Citations not only give credit but also help Wikipedia attract new editors and donors. ” If our content is getting sucked into an LLM without attribution or links, that’s a real problem for us in the short term,”}}</ref> While Wikipedia's licensing policy lets anyone use its texts, including in modified forms, it does have the condition that credit is given, implying that using its contents in answers by AI models without clarifying the sourcing may violate its terms of use.<ref name="nyt180724"/>
 
==See also==