Project Liberty Substack

Imagine the following scenario.

• You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of seven million English-language articles on the internet.
• You produce 500 new articles every single day, each one edited, fact-checked, and cited.
• Your review process is slow and methodical, sometimes taking weeks.
• The number of unpaid volunteers doing this work is declining.
• And you’re facing a flood of AI-generated text that makes the review harder.

This is Wikipedia in 2026. And rather than accelerate with AI, earlier this year volunteer editors voted to ban AI-generated text across the English-language site.

It’s the opposite of what most institutions are doing. In this newsletter, we explore what that decision means for the community-powered online encyclopedia, how they are using AI, and how the decision could serve as a blueprint for other movement-building and resistance to Big Tech.