June 28, 2025
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Andy Edser

Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it ‘would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source’

Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it ‘would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source’

Andy Edser07 mins

AI summaries are all up in our search engines these days, and I think it’s fair to say the response has been varied to date. The Wikipedia editor community, however, appears to have taken a strong stance on a recently proposed experiment by the Wikimedia Foundation to add AI-generated summaries at the top of Wiki…

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If you fondly remember the wonders of terrible graphics card box art like me, there’s now a book available with a collection of some of the greatest hits

If you fondly remember the wonders of terrible graphics card box art like me, there’s now a book available with a collection of some of the greatest hits

Andy Edser04 mins

At some point in the future, I look forward to telling my grandchildren that their new holo-GPUs are nothing like the wonderful hardware I experienced as a child. No, our graphics cards were spiky, robust bits of technology—and they came in boxes covered in art featuring robot frogs, or scantily clad cyber elves, or the…

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