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Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles

yakko@feddit.uk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Speaking very generally, it’s still conceding an amount of human intelligence and there are problems with it that are worth talking about, but it’s a use of AI that at least defers to human judgment, and as long as users are still personally researching and writing their own edits I honestly don’t hate it. Much.

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lime@feddit.nu ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
it’s mostly outsourcing attention, which is pretty acceptable for a large project like wikipedia.

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- yakko@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Right - I won’t call it a good thing to let people deskill on reading comprehension skills, but they’re donating their labour to a public benefit! I’m hardly going to scold them as if I was their professor.
  
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  - lime@feddit.nu ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    my thought is mainly that there aren’t enough hours in the day to read and check everything on wikipedia. there’s a reason the scots vandalism went unnoticed so long, people just don’t have the time.
    
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- Bldck@beehaw.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s my main use for LLMs
  
  I write the code logic, the main argument points, etc
  
  let the LLM lint, format and structure the discussion
  
  I provide another round of copy editing, styling and other updates
  
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  - lime@feddit.nu ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    personally i have separate linters, formatters and structure markers that don’t raise the temperature of my apartment when in use, but you do you.
    
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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I agree here and this goes back before ai. Any automated thing is fine with humans in the loop but once you take them out is when the trouble starts.

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