Is AI really making people stop visiting Wikipedia? What do you think? 🤔
By Real Ray C on
So I just came across this article saying that Wikipedia is seeing a dangerous drop in human visitors and they’re blaming AI for it.
Apparently, more people are getting their facts straight from chatbots or summaries instead of clicking through and reading the original Wikipedia pages.
And honestly… I get it. I use AI a lot myself. When I just need a quick answer or reminder, I’ll ask ChatGPT or Perplexity instead of scrolling through an article. But part of me wonders are we losing something important by doing that?
For me here's how i see it:
- AI is convenient, no doubt. It gives you the gist in seconds.
- But Wikipedia (and similar sources) are how we learn how to think, not just get answers.
- The scary part? If fewer people visit sites like Wikipedia, there’ll be less editing, less fact-checking, less of the human part of knowledge.
- And ironically, AI needs Wikipedia it’s trained on that data in the first place.
So it feels like a cycle: AI depends on human-created info, but if humans stop engaging with it, the quality of that info could slowly fade.
- Do you still visit Wikipedia yourself?
- Or do you mostly rely on AI tools now?
- Do you think this shift is just progress, or something we should actually be worried about?
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