cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/41060046

Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia’s credibility.

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Oh, so when the feds complain about AI taking their jobs, it is immediately seen as a bad thing and removed, but when I complain about it, suddenly I’m a “Luddite” and “just don’t understand this amazing new technology”

    I do think it is kind of telling that this is how things have gone down on wikipedia though. And something I never really considered, I just assumed that the “powers that be” were just wowed by AI and support it because of that. But they might actually be all in on it not because they want to use it, but because they recognise it as a form of social control. If any website/article/whatever can be handwaved away with “It’s AI and wrong” but Wikipedia isn’t, it’ll start to become the only acceptable “arbiter of truth” on the internet.

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      2 months ago

      More real than real baby!! It’s the logical next step of postmodern capitalism tbh. And I think it’s both, they do really want to use it because they believe the hype and promises to some extent, and it’s also a form of social control