Nearly 25 years after launching Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales remains unmoved by the pressure to let artificial intelligence write the encyclopedia's articles. In a wide-ranging interview, Wales laid out why Wikipedia continues to reject ad revenue, resist AI authorship, and rely instead on a donor base averaging roughly $10 a gift.

Wales points to hallucination as the central obstacle. Large language models predict the next likely word rather than verifying facts, he explained, and the error rate climbs sharply once a topic........

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