Future Audiences/Experiment:Citation Needed - Meta
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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.

  • @[email protected]English
    15•9 months ago

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

    • ᴅᴜᴋᴇᴛʜᴏʀɪᴏɴEnglish
      -3•9 months ago

      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.

          • @FooBarringtonEnglish
            2•9 months ago

            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.

            • AatubeOP
              2•9 months ago

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

              • @FooBarringtonEnglish
                0•9 months ago

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

                • AatubeOP
                  2•9 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.

      • AatubeOP
        3•9 months ago

        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

        • @PlantJamEnglish
          4•9 months ago

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