‘Wikimedia Foundation will bank on human editors to stay relevant’

KOCHI: Jorge Vargas, senior director of Community Investments and Partnerships at Wikimedia Foundation, noted that even in the era of AI boom, the foundation would bank on human editors to stay relevant in providing knowledge to the world.

Speaking to TNIE, Jorge said, “Human knowledge is powerful and we are relying on it. However, many AI models have been using data from Wikipedia platforms for training and hence we are experiencing a lot of bot traffic these days. We are practising a mechanism to enforce how much they are actually being able to access, as Wikipedia is free, but maintaining the service and technology is not.”