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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!

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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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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 26 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Reflection (artificial intelligence) is dreck of a high order. It cites one arXiv post after another, along with marketing materials directly from OpenAI and Google themselves... How do the people who write this shit dress themselves in the morning without pissing into their own socks?

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I also really don't enjoy AI boom.

GPT-3 is a large language model that was released in 2020 by OpenAI and is capable of generating high-quality human-like text. [...] An upgraded version called GPT-3.5 was used in ChatGPT, which later garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge.

Who wrote this? OpenAI marketing?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Let's see, it cites Scott Computers, a random "AI Safety Fundamentals" website, McKinsey (four times!), a random arXiv post....

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