Jimmy Wales
speaker
6,110 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jun 2023
last heard 21 Jun
Jimmy Wales’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So we're looking into a lot of it.
Definitely, yeah.
All of the major models are trained heavily on Wikipedia data, which we think is broadly a good thing.
I mean, I really wouldn't want to use an AI that was trained only on X, for example.
It would be a very angry and stupid AI.
But of course, we've had trouble with some of the AI companies really hammering our servers, calling us too intensively.
So we're pushing them quite firmly these days to stop doing that and to sort of get a feed from us because it's just better for them, better for us.
And then there's also, you haven't mentioned it, but there's also the question of the traffic to the website.
When we see people using Google AI summaries at the top of articles, we have seen a bit of a drop in traffic.
We think it's mostly just those really short answer kind of questions.
You ask, how old is Tom Cruise?
Well, Google can tell you now.
And 20 years ago, you would click through and read in Wikipedia to find out how old Tom Cruise is.
But we haven't seen a drop in the real deep traffic, like people coming and reading and enjoying sort of studying some whole area of, you know, I don't know what it might be.
The Beatles, you know, something like that.
You might come and read for hours and learn all kinds of history and just enjoy that.
That's not being replaced by.
Well, I always say I'm a pathological optimist, so I always think everything's going to be great.
I'm not surprised, of course.
It's great, and I enjoy it, and I'm glad other people do.
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