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Wikipedia is having a renaissance in the age of AI

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After allowing AI bots to train using their content, there are questions about the future of Wikipedia’s human-powered identity. | franckreporter/Getty Images If you grew up with computers in your classroom, there’s a good chance you heard this instruction before starting a research paper: Don’t trust Wikipedia. The reasoning? Anyone can go in and make changes to a Wikipedia page. This is mostly true, though pages that are subject to a high amount of abuse or vandalism can be locked. However, the notion that the website is unreliable or a playground of misinformation has been overstat...