Tuesday, January 20, 2026

AI == $ ==> Wikipedia

Still some hope that Wikipedia may survive?
While not "on sale", they started accepting money from AI dedicated "feeds".

But StackOverflow that did a similar deal before, and lost most of traffic. 
So now without users updating content, why would anyone need to pay?

Similar could happen to Wikipedia... 

I think their best hope would be their own AI app, that would enable bi-directional usage,
both getting and updating content. Would be hard to differentiate human from AI users... 
The main "competitor", Grokipedia, is AI-only edited... 

Will need to evolve to survive... 

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” 
― Quote by Charles Darwin

 Wikipedia is now getting paid by Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and other AI companies | TechSpot



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