Comment on AI-generated content in Wikipedia - a tale of caution
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Is there a slide deck or transcript of this? I don’t watch videos this way.
Comment on AI-generated content in Wikipedia - a tale of caution
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Is there a slide deck or transcript of this? I don’t watch videos this way.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I’m still reading the machine generated transcript of the video. But to keep it short:
The author was messing with ISBNs (international standard book numbers), and noticed invalid ones fell into three categories.
He then uses this to highlight that Wikipedia is already infested by bullshit from large “language” models², and this creates a bunch of vicious cycles that go against the spirit of Wikipedia of reliability, factuality, etc.
Then, if I got this right, he lays out four hypotheses (“theories”) on why people do this³:
Notes (all from my/Lvxferre’s part; none of those is said by the author himself)