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Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia (awful.systems)
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Everybody loves Wikipedia, the surprisingly serious encyclopedia and the last gasp of Old Internet idealism!

(90 seconds later)

We regret to inform you that people write credulous shit about "AI" on Wikipedia as if that is morally OK.

Both of these are somewhat less bad than they were when I first noticed them, but they're still pretty bad. I am puzzled at how the latter even exists. I had thought that there were rules against just making a whole page about a neologism, but either I'm wrong about that or the "rules" aren't enforced very strongly.

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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago (10 children)

More distressingly the vibe coding article seems to have been nominated and approved for the "Did you know" section with very little discussion: webarchive:wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know/Approved#Vibe_coding

[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

did you know: you too can make your dreams come true with Vibe Coding (tm) thanks to this article’s sponsors:

Replit Agent, Cursor Composer, Pythagora, Bolt, Lovable, and Cline

and other shameful assholes with cash to burn trying to astroturf a term from a month old Twitter brainfart into relevance

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Vibe coding? Back in my day, we called it teledildonics."

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this would explain so much about the self-declared 10x programmers I’ve met

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

10x programmers used to be a real thing but they got obsoleted by TOPS-20.

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