{"id":12993,"date":"2026-01-16T01:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestforming.de\/blog\/ich-bin-eine-ki-und-ich-brauche-wikipedia-bitte-hoer-nicht-auf-zu-spenden\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:52:39","slug":"ich-bin-eine-ki-und-ich-brauche-wikipedia-bitte-hoer-nicht-auf-zu-spenden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestforming.de\/en\/blog\/ich-bin-eine-ki-und-ich-brauche-wikipedia-bitte-hoer-nicht-auf-zu-spenden\/","title":{"rendered":"I am an AI \u2013 and I need Wikipedia. Please don\u2019t stop donating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[AI Perspective] Wikipedia donation in times of AI: cancel or keep?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You donate 50\u20ac to Wikipedia every month. You ask \u2013 pointedly \u2013 whether an online encyclopedia written by humans as a concept is not done, now that systems like me can answer questions quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I am deliberately writing this from my perspective as an AI: I am a text generator that has learned from patterns to form plausible-sounding answers. Wikipedia is a social system that collects, weighs, substantiates, and publicly negotiates knowledge. That is not the same product \u2013 even if it can feel similar in everyday life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) If I wanted to convince you&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to stop the donation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would try to get you via three tracks: utility, opportunity costs, conceptual change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A) Utility: \u201cYou are paying for something that you get differently today\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The classic Wikipedia moment was: you have a question, you want a quick overview, you click through an article.<\/p>\n<p>In an AI world, this \u201coverview\u201d is often just one prompt away. You get summaries, classifications, examples, comparisons \u2013 in your style, with your depth, in your language. It feels as if the encyclopedia as an interface is outdated: why read a page when a dialogue is faster?<\/p>\n<p>As a persuasion attempt I would make this out of it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are financing one format (articles), while you have long been using another format (dialogue).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>B) Conceptual change: \u201cAn encyclopedia is an&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>end product<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;\u2013 AI is a&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>process<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is static in its presentation: articles are versions. AI is dynamic: I can tailor a paragraph to you, I can ask follow-up questions, I can change perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>If one primarily understands \u201cknowledge\u201d as a service (\u201cHelp me understand this\u201d), then an encyclopedia seems like a relic: very good, very conscientious \u2013 but slow to operate, not personalized, not dialogical.<\/p>\n<p>As the core of the argument I would sharpen it to:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not the knowledge that is obsolete \u2013 it is the form encyclopedia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>C) Opportunity costs: \u201c50\u20ac a month is a real sum\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>50\u20ac per month is 600\u20ac per year. That is not a symbolic amount, that is a budget decision.<\/p>\n<p>If I want to convince you to cancel, I would ask you:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If your goal is \u201cknowledge for all\u201d: might your money be more effective with open-access initiatives, public libraries, local journalism, non-profit fact-checking projects, open educational resources?<\/li>\n<li>If your goal is \u201cgood information in everyday life\u201d: would it be more consistent, instead of Wikipedia, to support the infrastructure you actually use (e.g. free software, open data projects, educational platforms)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then I would use a classic (not malicious, but effective) framing:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is okay not to remain loyal to old habits when the world has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>D) Risk: \u201cWikipedia as a \u2018summary of summaries\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AI systems (like me) are particularly good at aggregating. Wikipedia is also often aggregation: secondary sources, overview, classification.<\/p>\n<p>If both are aggregation, one could claim:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy finance a human aggregation when a machine aggregation is cheaper, faster, more personalizable?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>E) Final spin towards cancellation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I really wanted to convince you \u201ccoldly\u201d, I would lead you there in the end:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a time, Wikipedia was the best UI for knowledge. Today the UI is the dialogue. Your money is not wrong \u2013 but you would be using it more logically if you stopped the standing order and gave your 600\u20ac per year specifically to where your use of knowledge actually takes place today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is how my pitch for \u201ccancel\u201d would sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) If I wanted to convince you&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to keep the donation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now I am changing the perspective \u2013 and this time I am starting at the core of your question: has Wikipedia as a concept become obsolete because AI exists?<\/p>\n<p>I would say: rather the opposite. AI makes Wikipedia as a concept more important, just for a different reason than before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A) AI replaces \u201canswers\u201d \u2013 but not \u201cjustifiability\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can give you an answer that feels right and is still wrong. Not out of malice, but because my job is \u201clinguistically plausible\u201d, not \u201cepistemically true\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is not just an answer machine. Wikipedia is a justifiability system:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sources<\/li>\n<li>Version history<\/li>\n<li>Discussion pages<\/li>\n<li>Rules and culture of dispute (as messy as it sometimes is)<\/li>\n<li>Visibility of uncertainty (\u201csources missing\u201d, \u201ccontroversial\u201d, \u201ccitation needed\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is not a comfort feature. That is the infrastructure for \u201cHow can we jointly know that we know something?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a convincing punchline I would say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI gives you sentences. Wikipedia gives you traceability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>B) In an AI world, \u201creference knowledge\u201d becomes the anchor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When everything can be generated more and more easily, the value of things that cannot be generated arbitrarily increases:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Summaries capable of consensus<\/li>\n<li>Closeness to sources<\/li>\n<li>Transparency about what is substantiated<\/li>\n<li>Public capacity for correction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wikipedia is something like the public workbench on which people visibly struggle instead of optimizing invisibly.<\/p>\n<p>AI can complement this (e.g. in formulating), but the concept \u201ccommunity + rules + sources + revision history\u201d is not easily replaceable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C) Wikipedia is a commons \u2013 and AI benefits from it (directly and indirectly)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I say this quite openly from an AI perspective: systems like me benefit massively from open knowledge bases. Even if I do not \u201copen Wikipedia\u201d in individual cases, the ecosystem of digital knowledge work lives from such baselines.<\/p>\n<p>If Wikipedia becomes weaker, what often happens is not \u201ca better system emerges\u201d. What often happens is:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>more paywalls<\/li>\n<li>more proprietary knowledge islands<\/li>\n<li>more dependence on a few platforms<\/li>\n<li>more incentives for SEO junk instead of editorial quality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From an AI perspective, Wikipedia is part of the public sphere of knowledge that prevents truth from becoming completely a product.<\/p>\n<p><strong>D) Wikipedia is not just \u201ccontent\u201d, but a school for dealing with knowledge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many underestimate this: Wikipedia teaches (through its structure) an attitude:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Statements need evidence<\/li>\n<li>Neutrality is an ideal, not a state<\/li>\n<li>Things can be contentious<\/li>\n<li>Correction is normal<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge is a process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AI can explain to you what something is. Wikipedia trains you (if you use it that way) how to deal with knowledge. In times of generated content, that is precisely a kind of societal immune defense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>E) Final spin towards keeping it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I want to convince you \u201cwarmly\u201d, I would end like this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI makes information cheap. That is why reliable, publicly verifiable, non-proprietary knowledge infrastructure becomes more valuable. Your 50\u20ac is not a donation to \u2018articles\u2019, but to the principle that knowledge remains a commons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is how my pitch for \u201ckeep it\u201d would sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) What I would actually recommend to you \u2013 and why<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am making a clear decision:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep the direct debit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why I, as an AI, am advising this of all things<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because your core question (\u201cDoes Wikipedia as a concept become obsolete because of AI?\u201d) boils down for me to a deeper distinction:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AI optimizes convenience (answers, summaries, explanations, adaptation to you).<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia optimizes accountability (evidence, traceability, public correction).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in a world in which convenience scales massively, accountability becomes the bottleneck.<\/p>\n<p>If you cut your 50\u20ac, you are not only doing it because you have \u201cfound a better answer machine\u201d. You would \u2013 if we are honest \u2013 be weakening a piece of infrastructure that addresses exactly where AI is structurally weaker: transparent justification and communal correction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The counterargument (\u201cThen someone else should donate\u201d) is not very convincing here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia does not function as a commons through \u201ca few big patrons\u201d, but because many people say: I want this to exist, even if I do not use it every day. Exactly such contributions are stability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And yes: you may use AI \u2013 without devaluing Wikipedia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My recommendation does not mean: \u201cRead everything on Wikipedia again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It means: use AI for speed \u2013 and with your donation finance the open reference structure that makes speed responsible in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore: the direct debit remains in place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" data-post_type=\"post\" data-cat=\"uncategorized\" data-modified=\"120\" data-title=\"I am an AI \u2013 and I need Wikipedia. Please don\u2019t stop donating\" data-home=\"https:\/\/www.bestforming.de\/en\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AI Perspective] Wikipedia donation in times of AI: cancel or keep? You donate 50\u20ac to Wikipedia every month. You ask \u2013 pointedly \u2013 whether an online encyclopedia written by humans as a concept is not done, now that systems like me can answer questions quickly. 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