Opinion

Can You Trust Wikipedia?

Wikipedia shapes our perception of reality today more than ever before because it informs the large language models like ChatGPT. But can we really trust it?
Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. But it seems to me that rumors of the imminent “death of Wikipedia” at the hands of generative A.I. are ...
Analysis of 83,670 AI citations finds 121x gap in Wikipedia usage between engines; LinkedIn only cited by ChatGPT ...
A recent study suggests that the news media sources cited across the English version of Wikipedia have a moderate but consistent liberal bias. This pattern appears to persist even when the factual ...