Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia (opens in new tab)

As a CS student ~20 years ago I wrote a small website to manage my todo list and hosted it on my desktop in the department. One day I found my items disappearing before my eyes. At first I assumed someone was intentionally messing with my app but logs indicated it was just a scraping bot someone was running.

It was a low stakes lesson on why GET should not mutate meaningful state. I knew when I built it anyone could click the links and I wasn’t bothered with auth since it was one accessible from within the department network. But I didn’t plan for the bots.

I think the idea is sound, the potential is to have a much larger AI-wikipedia than the human one. Can it cover all known entities, events, concepts and places? All scientific publications? It could get 1000x larger than Wikipedia and be a good pre-training source of text.

Covering a topic I would not make the AI agent try to find the "Truth" but just to analyze the distribution of information out there. What are the opinions, who has them? I would also test a host of models in closed book mode and put an analysis of how AI covers the topic on its own, it is useful information to have.

This method has the potential to create much higher quality text than usual internet scrape, in large quantities. It would be comparative analysis text connecting across many sources, which would be better for the model than training on separate pieces of text. Information needs to circulate to be understood better.