“My big motivation for doing the study is to encourage the public to understand how to read Wikipedia better,” Dr Heather Ford, lead researcher and an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney, tells Cosmos.
“Every single source that we encounter – before the internet, and definitely on the internet – is biased in some way. It is coming from a particular perspective.
“People come to platforms like Wikipedia, and those that synthesise Wikipedia data like Google and ChatGPT, and think that it is somehow neutral, because it is somehow an objective consensus view of everyone’s knowledge or views on a topic – but that’s just not true.”