After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year.
The nonprofit, which supports Wikipedia, points the finger at the impact of generative AI and social media for the marked decline in how people now seek information online. For example, it highlighted that search engines are now providing answers directly…








