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Wikipedia is interested in being an online encyclopaedia. They are not obliged to accommodate the needs of AI researchers unless they want to.
by selfhoster11 4y ago
Wikipedia is interested in being an online encyclopaedia. They are not obliged to accommodate the needs of AI researchers unless they want to.
- photochemsyn 4y agoI haven't seen anything yet on how much recent Wikipedia content is generated by systems like ChatGPT... it appears to be an issue however: > "Wikipedians like Knipel imagine that ChatGPT could be used on Wikipedia as a tool without removing the role of humanity. For them, the initial text that’s generated from the chatbot is useful as a starting place or a skeletal outline. Then, the human verifies that this information is supported by reliable sources and fleshes it out with improvements. This way, Wikipedia itself does not become machine-written. Humans remain the project’s special sauce." https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/chatgpt-wikipedia-articles.html https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/chatgpt-wikipedia-artic... This might create a kind of structural-organizational conformity in all articles, which doesn't sound so great.
- TrapLord_Rhodo 4y agoi've been using it for proposal copywrite in the same manner.
- grensley 4y agoYeah, my thoughts exactly. I see it as these AI researchers pointing out how to attack Wikipedia, so Wikipedia is getting indirectly forced here. Feels wrong to me.