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Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense (www.techspot.com)
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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.

Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of the cleanup crew, told 404 Media that the crisis began when Wikipedia editors and users began seeing passages that were unmistakably written by a chatbot of some kind.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unleashing generative AI on the world was basically the information equivalent of jumping headfirst into Kessler Syndrome.

[–] khannie 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For the uninitiated like me:

The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is numerous enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.

Wikipedia link.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good call, thank you.

Also: Referencing Wikipedia in this context is kinda funny.

[–] khannie 11 points 1 month ago

I did think that. :) It's just.... So good. I hope it never enshitifies. God help us.