Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense - eviltoast
Correction (10/11/24): Lebleu reached out to clarify a few detailed regarding the motivations behing the user posting AI-generated materiel and the examples mentioned. These changes were applied...

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.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    80·
    1 month ago

    There is a group of people who have been systematically dismantling education, making access to information harder, and generally known to fuck shit up because they want to punish people who don’t agree with them.

    • Zacpod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      I got permabanned from Reddit for saying, about someone who destroyed a public library: “I wish we could bring back old-school stocks as punishment for whoever did this so the whole town could line up to throw rotten vegetables at them.” Apperently, that’s so radically violent that they had to permaban me.