Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense - eviltoast

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    • ogeist@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The hacker group is 𝐒𝐍_𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀 according to their Profile, they are in Staraya Russa, Novgorod region

      But! It might be a false flag.

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        2 months ago

        Thanks for additional info!

        That’s interesting, actually. I can’t see why Russia the state would be interested in this (it already has issues accessing certain sources, so messing with a free open library is shooting oneself in the foot), so it’s either truly for the lulz (which are probably the most questionable lulz in history), or there’s some truly mastermind plot behind this.