US Edition
“Yuck”: Wikipedia Pauses AI Summaries After Editor Revolt
- Wikipedia began testing AI-generated article summaries on June 2, 2025, showing them to 10 percent of mobile users before pausing the project a day later.
- The pause followed strong opposition from volunteer editors who criticized the rollout for excluding their input and risking Wikipedia's reputation for reliability.
- Editors described the AI summaries as damaging, with comments including "yuck," "ghastly idea," and concerns about concentrating editorial power in single summaries.
- A Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson explained the experiment aimed to improve accessibility by simplifying complex articles and to explore proper moderation while affirming continued volunteer involvement.
- The Foundation acknowledged poor planning and pledged better engagement with editors before future AI initiatives, indicating ongoing interest in AI-generated content with human oversight.
40 Articles
40 Articles
The Wikimedia Foundation wanted to experiment with abstracts of articles generated by artificial intelligence. Unfortunately received by the volunteer community, the initiative is suspended in the wake of its launch.
The Wikimedia Foundation, organisation behind Wikipedia, has been forced to suspend a new functionality based on artificial intelligence (IA). This decision emerged after a wave of criticism by its own community...
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…
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 55% of the sources lean Left
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
