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Death by AI

(davebarry.substack.com)
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devinplatt ◴[] No.44619933[source]
This reminds me a lot of the special policies Wikipedia has developed through experience about sensitive topics, like biographies of living persons, deaths, etc.
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pyman ◴[] No.44619994[source]
I'm worried about this. Companies like Wikipedia spent years trying to get things right, and now suddenly Google and Microsoft (including OpenAI) are using GenAI to generate content that, frankly, can't be trusted because it's often made up.

That's deeply concerning, especially when these two companies control almost all the content we access through their search engines, browsers and LLMs.

This needs to be regulated. These companies should be held accountable for spreading false information or rumours, as it can have unexpected consequences.

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Timwi ◴[] No.44621388[source]
Wikipedia is not a company, it's a website.

The organization that runs the website, the Wikimedia Foundation, is also not a company. It's a nonprofit.

And the Wikimedia Foundation have not “spent years trying to get things right”, assuming you're referring to facts posted on Wikipedia. That was in fact a bunch of unpaid volunteer contributors, many of whom anonymous and almost all of whom unaffiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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1. pyman ◴[] No.44622714[source]
Yes, Wikipedia is an organisation, not a company (my bad). They spent years improving its tools and building a strong community. Volunteers review changes and some edits get automatically flagged or even reversed if they look suspicious or come from anonymous users. When there's a dispute, editors use "Talk" pages to discuss what should or shoulda't be included.

You can't really argue with those facts.