Submitted 8 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experiment:Citation_Needed
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.
Chrome extension only?
They’re a non-profit and they’re aiming for the largest possible market segment.
These work perfectly on any chromium browser like Brave fyi.
Off topic, but has anyone noticed Wikipedia’s starting to feel outdated in places? Way too often there’s something that’s “as of 2014”.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Obviously Wikipedia is not a definitive or 100% accurate source but this sounds like a genuinely positive use of AI to combat misinformation. The people it really needs to reach likely won’t use it but it’s still a good idea.