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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ForgottenFlux to c/technology

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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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[–] rsuri 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah but the other thing about humanity is it's mostly harmless. Edits can be reverted, articles can be locked. Wikipedia will be fine.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Edits can be reverted, articles can be locked.

Sure, but the vandalism has to be identified first. And that takes time and effort.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wikipedia relies on sources, and humans choosing the sources like newspapers. And those newspapers are more and more inside a "bubble" that rejects any evidence or reporting presented by a competing bubble.

Right now wikipedia is covering up one of the greatest acts of mass murder of our times, because the newspapers are covering it up, or rejecting evidence because it's by the "enemy". Part of this is a defensive posture against AI bots and enemy disinformation.