- Led by Dr Patrick Gildersleve, University of Exeter, in collaboration with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Wikipedia sits at the heart of the Internet’s knowledge infrastructure, openly and collaboratively documenting the ever-evolving record of human understanding.
As a key training source for large language models, it now shapes the information that AI produces – yet these AI writing tools are increasingly being used by editors back on the platform itself. This project investigates how this reciprocal relationship may reproduce or reinforce biases within collective knowledge systems, focusing on the issue of notability: what and who is included in, or excluded from, these resources. Through ethnographic and computational analysis, including a public “edit-AI-thon”, the researchers will examine how algorithmic and human practices intertwine in defining who and what counts. Outputs will include policy & editing recommendations and an educational video.
Image credit: Teresa Berndtsson / Letter Word Text Taxonomy / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0
