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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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[–] self@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

there’s something fucking hilarious about you and your friend coming here to lecture us about how Wikipedia works, but explaining the joke to you is also going to be tedious as shit and I don’t have any vegan nacho fries or junior mints to improve my mood

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The "trivial" procedure for suggesting that an article be deleted was evidently written by the kids who liked programming their parents' VCR.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago

Wikipedia rules make more sense when you understand they are entirely to keep the most pedantic nerds on earth from fighting

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

oh yeah, I’m waiting for David to wake up so he can read the words

the trivial ‘homework’ of starting the rule violation procedure

and promptly explode, cause fielding deletion requests from people like our guests who don’t understand wikipedia’s rules but assume they’re, ah, trivial, is probably a fair-sized chunk of his workload

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

my lethal weapon is my WP:WTF