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Wikipedia losing traffic to AI

Rob Beschizza
Oct 17, 2025
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Humans in retreat

Machine learning is being used to replace search engine results with summaries, and the sites being plagiarized soon noted a decline in traffic. Now Wikipedia observes a similar loss of pageviews, with its online encyclopedia down 8% since last year. The story is more complicated than chatbots intercepting visitors, though, as the site …

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