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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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[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Sabotage Wikipedia, Ddos the Internet Archive. Makes you wonder if in the future we're going to forget our past. Will actual history be obscured in a sea of alternative histories unrecognizably presented as the same thing. Maybe we need to keep some books laying around in archives just to be sure.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The digital dark age will be a real thing, absolutely.

Interesting idea on a sea of alternative histories. That might be a possible threat.
Someone else here called it "AI text apocalypse". I like that term.

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

We have still Anna's archive, scihub, libgen and old fashion traditional libraries ( including the national ). National libraries won't disappear in the nearest years, maybe will rotten due to defunding but still they will exist