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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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[–] T156@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully they tightened things up after the Scots incident.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What Scots incident?

[–] T156@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A considerable number of the articles written in Scots weren't written in Scots. The most prolific writer of the Scots articles was an American teen with no knowledge of Scots, and was more or less just writing them in a Scottish accent.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Yep, I recalled that.

A certain amount of Russians with Cossack roots would do this with Ukrainian on the web, causing a bit less butthurt because TBH a lot of Ukrainians don't speak in any way proper Ukrainian, but a mix of Ukrainian and Russian, and a lot of the rest talk dialects still different from standard.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ah. That.