Wikipedia Is the Internet’s Last Honest Corner. AI Is About to Pave Over It.
Wikipedia’s real battle isn’t against AI β it’s against the slow normalization of unverified confidence. AI generates plausible content faster than humans can verify it, and the economics of fact-checking don’t scale. Wikipedia may survive, but if it becomes the only human-verified island in a sea of synthetic content, it stops being a living commons and becomes a museum. The internet’s soul hangs in the balance.