Agreed, and there is already a solution that’s better to support anyway. It may not be perfect, but Wikipedia operates on this model at scale at a much smaller annual budget than any of the AI companies and has produced much higher quality content overtime for all of humanities benefit than the AI teams which are most just scraping the work of others while spending most of their original work to replace human labor for their own financial benefit.
Wikipedia community bans AI-generated entries because verifying and removing AI hallucinations imposes even more workload on editors than writing articles from scratch [1, 2].
If you don’t agree that Wikipedia’s approach, one can always fork it like was done with SpaceX / Twitter did with its launch of Grokipedia on October 27, 2025, which hasn’t been really incorporating much improvement well with lots of digressions in its quality and reliability [3].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_wit...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy#Artif...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia#Reliability
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The problem with Wikipedia is that quality varies greatly across fields. Technology or software engineering are great, physics varies, but e.g. even articles about the most basic math concepts are completely incomprehensible.
I can often ask an AI to give me an easily understandable three paragraph overview of a concept that on wikipedia has a hundred paragraph article requiring multiple prerequisite textbooks to even start to comprehend. And that's for basic math concepts like multiplication or exponentiation.