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And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

So Wikipedia, you know them, you love them, or at least, you know, we used to love them,

often described, according to this story, the last good website on the internet.

All right, all right.

I know, you know, we don't like the other internet, you know,

with that internet over there with that toxic social media and all that AI slop. Yeah, we don't

like that. Well, they are not immune from that AI slop. The online encyclopedia claims human

page views have fallen 8% year over year, according to their

new blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikipedia.

I'm sorry, the Wikimedia Foundation.

So this is Wikipedia, but we get a blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation.

They believe that that is largely

attributed to AI summaries appearing at the top of Google search results. The foundation works

to distinguish between traffic from humans and bots. And Miller writes that the decline

over the past few months was revealed after an update to Wikipedia's bot detection

systems, which appeared to show that much of the unusually high traffic for the period of May

and June was coming from bots that were built to evade detection. And so he points to the

impact of a generative AI and social media on how people

seek information, particularly as search engines are increasingly using generative AI to provide

answers directly to searchers rather than linking to sites like Wikipedia.

And as, you know, the younger generations are seeking information on social video platforms rather than the open web, yeah.

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