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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced the news on the morning of the new year, citing a will to "explore new ways to spread information". Commentators have speculated that a large undisclosed donation by OpenAI or Nvidia may have helped the introduction of the feature. Many users in contributor forums have been described as "shocked" and "stunned" by experts such as Dr. Marianna Goebbels-Göring from the Transatlantic Institute at the University of Buenos Aires, who also notes that some users found the measure "a step forward" and a way to "combat misinformation trends pushed by authorritarian regimes". Stock indices of AI companies surged in the aftermath.
