Wikipedia has a new initiative called WikiProject AI Cleanup. It is a task force of volunteers currently combing through Wikipedia articles, editing or removing false information that...

Wikipedia has a new initiative called WikiProject AI Cleanup. It is a task force of volunteers currently combing through Wikipedia articles, editing or removing false information that appears to have been posted by people using generative AI.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    34·
    3 hours ago

    There is a group of people who have been systematically dismantling education, making access to information harder, and generally known to fuck shit up because they want to punish people who don’t agree with them.

  • FoniEnglish
    62·
    6 hours ago

    How much of an idiot do you have to be to attack Wikipedia?

    • uienia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      4 hours ago

      I think Hanlons razor is in desperate need of an update, since its premise seems to be based entirely on naivity. These days everything happening on the internet seems more like: “Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice”.

    • OwlPaste@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      5 hours ago

      Could also be state sponsored actors making alot of noise/work to get their more damagong edits through

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      4 hours ago

      How can we still be surprised by this? We see republicans routinely making a sport out of who can bomb and take a shit on the helpful parts of society every day.

      There is no bottom.

      I mean, you’re right. No disagreement. This is just what 20% of people do, and a different 40% think that you’re the real asshole if you try to stop them or even just point out it’s bad.

    • wagesj45@fedia.io
      41·
      5 hours ago

      People fuck with Wikipedia all the time. It’s honestly a wonder that it is usable at all and not a wasteland of defaced articles and bullshit. It is a real testament to the volunteers that keep it up.

      • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Awhile ago russians were harassing OpenStreetMap by fucking up the data, but the heroic volunteers fixed that quite quickly and kept a close eye on edits.

        Fuck people who ruin cool and nice things. And even though some of this kind of malice is state funded, I still blame the asshats for putting money before anything else and taking these jobs. If everyone acted like these assholes their lives would be miserable too.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        11·
        2 hours ago

        Also some Russian hackers are brought down the Internet Archive

        Er, do you mean the Russian hackers brought down the IA (and why, I’d peg government actors for that, more to lose, and more competent with legality) or were brought down by the IA, in which case I missed it.

        No judgement, English grammar is obscure, but this sentence is ambiguous and incorrect.

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    620·
    2 hours ago

    i dunno, critical support in their protracted ai war against Natopedia shrug-outta-hecks i guess?

    edit. fun fact, back when I was in school you werent allowed to use wikipedia as a source, because everyone knew it was filled with shit, just like it still is.