> and training can easily focus on high quality books and thus exceed wikipedia in quality.
Then it will never exceed Wikipedia. There are no high quality books to many of Wikipedia‘s articles and even if who qualifies those books as as high quality.
And less traffic is not only a problem of Wikipedia but also other websites.
So AI is killing the source it feeds on.
This is the golden age of AI.
The next age will be filled with less good sources, more AI generated content and sites that actively try to poison LLMs
As others have said, Wikipedia is a tertiary source. A primary source is the original materials, e.g. research papers for example. Secondary sources analyze or summarize, but also connect the primary sources into a bigger work. This is how comprehensive textbooks that cover a wide breadth of topics are written. Wikipedia is for those who are too lazy for even the secondary sources. I.e. blog post sized articles about a particular topic. That's what a tertiary source is and nobody really needs tertiary sources other than for convenience and time savings.
Then it will never exceed Wikipedia. There are no high quality books to many of Wikipedia‘s articles and even if who qualifies those books as as high quality.
And less traffic is not only a problem of Wikipedia but also other websites.
So AI is killing the source it feeds on.
This is the golden age of AI. The next age will be filled with less good sources, more AI generated content and sites that actively try to poison LLMs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45529587