Curious internet users looked at ChatGPT’s Wikipedia page more than any other English article on the open-source online encyclopedia website this year, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Given the hype, it was only a matter of time before someone would ask ChatGPT to write a Wikipedia article about a topic. On Dec. 6, Richard Knipel, a longtime Wikipedian under the handle Pharos ...

Wikipedia earlier this month released its list of the 25 most viewed articles on English Wikipedia in 2023.As always, it's a good sign of the times. There's a lot of what you'd expect on the list.

Wikipedia is currently ranked number ten globally in terms of traffic compared to all other sites, while ChatGPT is currently ranked number six with just over 4.5 billion monthly visits.

ChatGPT's Wikipedia page was visited between 100,000 and 400,000 times almost every day in the first half of the year, the Wikimedia Foundation said.

The free version of ChatGPT offers a lot, but for those using it on a daily basis, it's probably worth upgrading to a paid subscription.

Wikipedia’s top 25 most viewed pages in 2023, ... Alikhan added that ChatGPT is also trained using Wikipedia data, using Wikimedia projects to answer users’ questions or prompts.

The Wikipedia comparison raises broader social, political and economic implications around ChatGPT and generative AI, which are my main concerns.

Wikipedia is no longer an encyclopedia, or at least not only an encyclopedia: Over the past decade it has become a kind of factual netting that holds the whole digital world together.

ChatGPT is this generation’s Wikipedia. We have an opportunity to learn from the past. There are different ways to use AI in the writing process – and writing is a process, not just an end ...

Wikipedia’s top 25 most viewed pages in 2023, ... Alikhan added that ChatGPT is also trained using Wikipedia data, using Wikimedia projects to answer users’ questions or prompts.