Wikipedia faces existential threat from AI, not just traffic decline

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Wikipedia editors initially believed the rise of artificial intelligence would be a temporary trend. However, the emergence of AI-generated summaries like Google's AI Overviews is having a sustained impact. This has led to a measurable decline in traffic to the Wikipedia website. The concern among Wikipedians is that the real threat is more existential, potentially undermining the platform's core purpose, rather than just being about visitor numbers.

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