Wikipedia Warns of AI Risks, Calls for Support

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As AI companies increasingly rely on Wikipedia’s knowledge base, the Wikimedia Foundation is urging tech firms to direct users back to the source.

The concern: If traffic keeps falling, volunteer contributions and donations could shrink — threatening the encyclopedia’s long-term sustainability.

Marshall Miller called on readers to:

Click through citations when using AI/search summaries.

Support trusted, human-curated knowledge.

Spread awareness that AI content comes from real people’s work.

Wikipedia is building tools to reach new readers and improve attribution, but Miller says community support is key to content integrity in the AI era.

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It’s a call to preserve human-authored knowledge in an AI-dominated information age.