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Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals".

How this works is it uses ChatGPT to generate a search query, utilizes WP's search API to search for relevant article text, and then uses ChatGPT to extract the relevant part.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

How would this be different from any browser that has Wikipedia search built in?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Presumably it would evaluate claims in the text without the user having to do the search. Sounds cool to me.

[–] dukethorion -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It says the user has to highlight then click the extension.

I can currently right-click and then click "Search on Wikipedia" in the context menu. I believe this works in both FF and chromium browsers.

Fuck AI.

[–] FooBarrington 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure where the not-working is here.

[–] FooBarrington 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where do you see it working? I see the result:

There were no results matching the query.

The extension mentioned in the post is supposed to:

return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals

I don't see any relevant quotes, or links to articles, or quality signals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, because there is no relevant Wikipedia information about what you searched for.

[–] FooBarrington 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are 100% sure that there is no mention of Wikipedia being integrated into Firefox/Chrome in any page? How thoroughly have you checked?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Due to Russell's Teapot, I cannot be thoroughly sure of that, at least in article space. However, that does not mean your claim stands, unless you find a mention.

In principle, the media has no reason to cover this, so no mention should exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I prefer a floating button next to the text than having to set my default search engine to Wikipedia or downloading an addon that only adds it to the context menu, lol. I need to complete my unholy trinity of levitating context buttons

[–] PlantJam 4 points 2 months ago

And here I am going out of my way to disable any and all floating buttons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It could run the search in the background

[–] afraid_of_zombies 1 points 2 months ago

It doesn't have a friendly looking duck as a logo.