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The Scottish Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who cant speak Scots
- dentemple 6y agoIs something being done about this?
- SyneRyder 6y agoAmazing story worth the read, if true - I've not tried to verify it myself, but I see that The Guardian, VICE, Gizmodo and others are now running with the story too. The scarier part is one of the Reddit comments by AppleGuySnake down the page: "I found this thread from someone on twitter pointing out that several computer language models use the Scots Wikipedia as their dataset for learning the language."
- EricE 6y agowho needs 10,000 monkeys when one can do? :) On a more serious note this is the big downside to Wiki's - we have become far too casual in trusting "the crowd" will take care of basic vetting. In this case it happened to be a crowd of one until someone else noticed. That should be a reminder to everyone. For all the fun poked today of old school resources like the Encyclopedia Britannica, they at least had a reputation to defend and thus were highly incentivized to be vigilant with quality control. And even then stuff still slipped through.