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Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense (www.techspot.com)

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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.

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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

Damn Putin, you're retarded.

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[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 month ago

Dead Internet Theory all over again.

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oh God. This is horrible news. So incredibly frustrating to hear.

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 month ago

Slop!

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

It's over. We lost.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Annoyed

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space -3 points 1 month ago

Lock it down make people get confirmed editing access face to face with trusted users.

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