{"id":1880,"date":"2025-06-12T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2025-06-15T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:02:14","slug":"wikipedia-halts-ai-plans-as-editors-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/wikipedia-halts-ai-plans-as-editors-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia halts AI plans as editors revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wikipedia-halts-ai-plans-as-editors-revolt_wex3.640.jpg\">&#8220;A truly ghastly idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An experiment adding AI-generated summaries to the top of Wikipedia pages has been paused, following fierce backlash from its community editors. <\/p>\n<p>The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, confirmed this to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">404 Media<\/a>, which spotted the discussion on a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Simple_summaries:_editor_survey_and_2-week_mobile_study\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">page detailing the project<\/a>. Introduced \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A truly ghastly idea.&#8221; An experiment adding AI-generated summaries to the top of Wikipedia pages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}