{"id":235165,"date":"2026-06-22T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/wikipedia-wont-let-ai-edit-articles-cofounder-says\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:30:12","slug":"wikipedia-wont-let-ai-edit-articles-cofounder-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/wikipedia-wont-let-ai-edit-articles-cofounder-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia won&#8217;t let AI edit articles, cofounder says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/wikipedia-wont-let-ai-edit-161618742.html\">Wikipedia won&#8217;t let AI edit articles, cofounder says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/wikipedia-wont-let-ai-edit-161618742.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/wikipedia-wont-let-ai-edit-161618742.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 12:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">www.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wikipedia&#8217;s co-founder, Jimmy Wales, emphasized the platform&#8217;s reluctance to trust artificial intelligence enough to allow it to directly edit its articles.<\/li>\n<li>The AI &#8220;hallucinations,&#8221; where fabricated information is confidently presented, remain a significant problem despite advancements in newer models.<\/li>\n<li>AI agents might assist Wikipedia&#8217;s community of editors by alerting them to niche news not widely covered.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the increasing traffic from AI bots, human traffic has dropped by eight percent, which Wales describes as &#8220;meaningful&#8221; but not catastrophic.<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia\u2019s business model does not directly depend on traffic as it primarily relies on user donations.<\/li>\n<li>Wales urged AI companies to &#8220;pay their fair share&#8221; due to the substantial costs servers incur from handling millions of requests from AI platforms.<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia has had success in negotiating with several tech companies, and is beginning to block those that aren&#8217;t complying with their policies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia won&#8217;t let AI edit articles, cofounder says https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/wikipedia-wont-let-ai-edit-161618742.html Publish Date: 2026-06-22 12:16:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/afp.com\/3f644a1ddf9d683b755dfc61aada5b05","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-235165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235168,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235165\/revisions\/235168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}