Artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects: Difference between revisions

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In August 2018, a company called Primer reported attempting to use artificial intelligence to create Wikipedia articles about women as a way to address [[gender bias on Wikipedia]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Simonite |first1=Tom |title=Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem |url=https://www.wired.com/story/using-artificial-intelligence-to-fix-wikipedias-gender-problem/ |magazine=Wired |date=3 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Verger |first1=Rob |title=Artificial intelligence can now help write Wikipedia pages for overlooked scientists |url=https://www.popsci.com/artificial-intelligence-scientists-wikipedia |website=Popular Science |language=en |date=7 August 2018}}</ref>

[[File:DeepL machine translation of English Wikipedia example.png|thumb|Machine translation software such as [[DeepL]] is used by contributors.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Costa-jussà |first1=Marta R. |last2=Cross |first2=James |last3=Çelebi |first3=Onur |last4=Elbayad |first4=Maha |last5=Heafield |first5=Kenneth |last6=Heffernan |first6=Kevin |last7=Kalbassi |first7=Elahe |last8=Lam |first8=Janice |last9=Licht |first9=Daniel |last10=Maillard |first10=Jean |last11=Sun |first11=Anna |last12=Wang |first12=Skyler |last13=Wenzek |first13=Guillaume |last14=Youngblood |first14=Al |last15=Akula |first15=Bapi |last16=Barrault |first16=Loic |last17=Gonzalez |first17=Gabriel Mejia |last18=Hansanti |first18=Prangthip |last19=Hoffman |first19=John |last20=Jarrett |first20=Semarley |last21=Sadagopan |first21=Kaushik Ram |last22=Rowe |first22=Dirk |last23=Spruit |first23=Shannon |last24=Tran |first24=Chau |last25=Andrews |first25=Pierre |last26=Ayan |first26=Necip Fazil |last27=Bhosale |first27=Shruti |last28=Edunov |first28=Sergey |last29=Fan |first29=Angela |last30=Gao |first30=Cynthia |last31=Goswami |first31=Vedanuj |last32=Guzmán |first32=Francisco |last33=Koehn |first33=Philipp |last34=Mourachko |first34=Alexandre |last35=Ropers |first35=Christophe |last36=Saleem |first36=Safiyyah |last37=Schwenk |first37=Holger |last38=Wang |first38=Jeff |title=Scaling neural machine translation to 200 languages |journal=Nature |date=June 2024 |volume=630 |issue=8018 |pages=841–846 |doi=10.1038/s41586-024-07335-x |pmid=38839963 |language=en |issn=1476-4687|pmc=11208141 |bibcode=2024Natur.630..841N }}</ref><ref name="nyt180724"/><ref name="considerations">{{cite arXiv |title=Considerations for Multilingual Wikipedia Research |eprint=2204.02483 |last1=Johnson |first1=Isaac |last2=Lescak |first2=Emily |date=2022 |class=cs.CY }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mamadouh |first1=Virginie |title=Handbook of the Changing World Language Map |date=2020 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-02438-3 |pages=3773–3799 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_200 |language=en |chapter=Wikipedia: Mirror, Microcosm, and Motor of Global Linguistic Diversity|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_200 |quote=Some versions have expanded dramatically using machine translation through the work of bots or web robots generating articles by translating them automatically from the other Wikipedias, often the English Wikipedia. […] In any event, the English Wikipedia is different from the others because it clearly serves a global audience, while other versions serve more localized audience, even if the Portuguese, Spanish, and French Wikipedias also serves a public spread across different continents}}</ref> More than 40% of Wikipedia's active editors

are in [[English Wikipedia]].<ref>{{cite arXiv |title=InfoSync: Information Synchronization across Multilingual Semi-structured Tables |eprint=2307.03313 |last1=Khincha |first1=Siddharth |last2=Jain |first2=Chelsi |last3=Gupta |first3=Vivek |last4=Kataria |first4=Tushar |last5=Zhang |first5=Shuo |date=2023 |class=cs.CL }}</ref>]]

===Generative models===

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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 |date=18 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Wikipedia Built the Internet’sInternet'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==