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Death by AI

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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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weatherlite ◴[] No.44621928[source]
> I'm worried about this. Companies like Wikipedia spent years trying to get things right,

Did they ? Lots of people, and some research verify this, think it has a major left leaning bias, so while usually not making up any facts editors still cherry pick whatever facts fit the narrative and leave all else aside.

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decimalenough ◴[] No.44622185[source]
This is indeed a problem, but it's a different problem from just making shit up, which is an AI specialty. If you see something that's factually wrong on Wikipedia, it's usually pretty straightforward to get it fixed.
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1. weatherlite ◴[] No.44622977[source]
> This is indeed a problem, but it's a different problem from just making shit up, which is an AI specialty

It's a bigger problem than AI errors imo, there are so many Wikipedia articles that are heavily biased. A.I makes up silly nonsense maybe once in 200 queries, not 20% of the time. Also, people perhaps are more careful and skeptical with A.I results but take Wikipedia as a source of truth.

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2. Tijdreiziger ◴[] No.44624933[source]
[citation needed]
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3. weatherlite ◴[] No.44627125[source]
"Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has been critical of Wikipedia since he was laid off as the only editorial employee and departed from the project in 2002.[28][29][30] He went on to found and work for competitors to Wikipedia, including Citizendium and Everipedia. Among other criticisms, Sanger has been vocal in his view that Wikipedia's articles present a left-wing and liberal or "establishment point of view"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia