I remember my teachers in school used to say „Wikipedia is not a reliable source“, when in fact soon it will be the only reliable source online 😭
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff www.404media.co/the-editors-...
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
I was telling my students that Wikipedia is not a reliable source but it is a good starting point for better sources. Wild that its now more reliable now than the things we used to rely on
One of the recurring donations I am happy to have taken on :)
Embarrassing that so much reliable science information is locked behind a paywall so now kids have to pray that there is any source of information available that isn't ChatGPT
I think it is tragic, because Wikipedia has had issues in the past with people posting tons of false information onto it, and Wikipedia moderation has to work full time nonstop to correct it, and the moderation are all volunteers, and now it is the only source left with any trustworthiness now...
My teachers wouldn't let us use Wikipedia as our sources for scientific articles, so everytime I'd go down to the wiki sources and use them instead
It's still not a source, it's a valid index of sources with a summary. AI is easy to detect, but most journalists these days just write off of information found on Wikipedia, and Wikipedia then uses these articles to validate it's information off of.
Wikipedia isn't a source but it *is* a compendium of citations to follow-up to outside sources. Anyway it didn't exist when I was in school so don't mind me while I go turn to dust in the corner
I actually like wikipedia a lot, learned more where school failed me. Wikipedia also always had sources at the lower part of the page, so could always go on a rabbit hole for further research like that, and come to own conclusion if sources were good enough or not. Wikipedia is a good starting point
I get the feeling that, if the "AI" push continues, those editors will be overwhelmed, the damage done will be insurmountable and another corner of the internet will fall.