Interviewing Jimmy Wales, Cofounder of Wikipedia
On this bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I interview Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a uncommon survivor from the Web Hippie Age, coexisting like an incredible herbivorous dinosaur with Fb, Twitter, and the opposite carnivorous mammals of Internet 2.0. Maybe not coincidentally, Jimmy is probably the most outstanding founding father of an enormous web establishment to not develop into a billionaire. We discover why that’s, and the way he feels about it.
I ask Jimmy whether or not Wikipedia’s mannequin is sustainable, and what new challenges lie forward for the web encyclopedia. We discover the declare that Wikipedia has a lefty bias, and whether or not a impartial standpoint may be maintained by together with solely materials from trusted sources. I ask Jimmy a couple of concrete instance—what seems to be to me like an idiosyncratically biased entry in Wikipedia for “Communism.”
We shut with an exploration of the alternatives and dangers posed for Wikipedia by ChatGPT and different massive language AI fashions.
Obtain 460th Episode (mp3)
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