Jimmy Wales

That's what it should do.

You know, I think it's a fool's errand to try and figure out what's going on in Elon Musk's mind.

So I'm not going to try.

Well, I mean, I don't think he has the power he thinks he has or that a lot of people think he has to damage Wikipedia.

I mean, we'll be here in 100 years and he won't.

So I think as long as we stay Wikipedia, people will still love us.

They will say, you know what, Wikipedia is great.

And all the noise in the world and all these people ranting, that's not really the real thing.

The real thing is...

genuine human knowledge, genuine discourse, genuinely grappling with the difficult issues of our day, that's actually super valuable.

So there's a lot of noise in the world.

I hope Elon will take another look and change his mind.

That'd be great.

But I would say that of anybody.

And, you know, in the meantime, I don't think we need to obsess over it or worry that much about it.

You know, we don't depend on him for funding.

And yeah, there we are.

Well, I think what we have to focus on when we think about the long run, we also have to keep up with technology.

We've got this rise of the large language models, which are an amazing but deeply flawed technology.

And so the way I think about that is to say, okay, look, I know for a fact no AI today is competent to write a Wikipedia entry.