The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site. 404 Media: The Wikimedia Foundation said that this poses a risk to the long term sustainability of Wikipedia. “We welcome new ways for people to gain knowledge. However, AI chatbots, search engines, and social platforms that use Wikipedia content must encourage more visitors to Wikipedia, so that the free knowledge that so many people and platforms depend on can continue to flow Sustainably,” the Foundation’s Senior Director of Product Marshall Miller said in a blog post. “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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Wikimedia is sounding the alarm on the impact AI is having on reliable knowledge and information on the internet. In a blog post, Wikimedia’s senior director of product, Marshall Miller, lays out the impact on page views that the foundation attributes to the rise of LLM chatbots and AI-generated summaries in search results. 

“We believe that these declines reflect the impact of generative AI and social media on how people seek information, especially with search engines providing answers directly to searchers, often based on Wikipedia content,” said Miller.

The foundation has increasingly faced AI bot crawlers whose sophistication has made it difficult to parse human traffic from bots. After improving bot detection to yield more accurate metrics, Wikipedia’s data shows an 8 percent drop in page views year over year.

Miller paints a picture of an existential risk greater than that of a website’s page views. He posits that if Wikipedia’s traffic continues to decline, it could threaten what he calls “the only site of its scale with standards of verifiability, neutrality and transparency powering information all over the internet.” He warns that fewer visits to Wikipedia would lead to fewer volunteers, less funding and ultimately less reliable content.

The solution he offers is for LLMs and search results to be more intentional in giving users the opportunity to interact directly with the source for the information being presented. “For people to trust information shared on the internet, platforms should make it clear where the information is sourced from and elevate opportunities to visit and participate in those sources,” Miller writes.

Earlier this summer, Wikipedia floated the idea of AI-generated summaries that would appear at the top of articles. The project was ultimately dropped before it began after fierce backlash from the site’s volunteer editors.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/wikimedia-says-ai-bots-and-summaries-are-hurting-wikipedias-traffic-134331033.html?src=rss

Apple has secured an exclusive deal for the US broadcast rights to Formula 1 racing. Under the terms of a five-year pact with F1 parent company Liberty Media, Apple TV will air every F1 race starting in 2026. 

The company says Apple TV subscribers will be able to watch every Grand Prix, along with each practice, qualifying and sprint session. Non-subscribers will be able to watch “select races” for free in the Apple TV app. You won’t have to pony up to watch practice sessions.

Formula 1 has its own dedicated streaming service. F1 TV Premium will still be available in the US, but only with an Apple TV subscription.

It was rumored in July that the tech giant might be looking to add the driving event to its sports programming. Apple allegedly bid between $120 million and $150 million a year for access to F1, which lapped the $90 million a year offered by ESPN, which previously had the US rights. The company may also be looking to capitalize on the success of its F1 the Movie project, which Engadget’s Devindra Hardawar found to be an excellent racing movie, a flashy summer blockbuster, and an ostentatious commercial for Apple in his review.

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