Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense | TechSpot
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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.

  • @[email protected]English
    69•2 months ago

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

    • @khannieEnglish
      44•2 months ago

      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.

        • @khannieEnglish
          11•2 months ago

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