Submitted 2 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
Wikipedia has a new initiative called WikiProject AI Cleanup. It is a task force of volunteers currently combing through Wikipedia articles, editing or removing false information that appears to have been posted by people using generative AI.
There is a group of people who have been systematically dismantling education, making access to information harder, and generally known to fuck shit up because they want to punish people who don’t agree with them.
I got permabanned from Reddit for saying “I wish we could bring back old-school stocks as punishment for whoever did this so the whole town could line up to throw rotten vegetables at them.” Apperently, that’s so radically violent that they had to permaban me.
Why would some one do this? Wikipedia its a mark in internet history
Its nuch funnier to destroy than to create.
We are still monkeys throwing shit around.
Also some Russian hackers are brought down the Internet Archive
Awhile ago russians were harassing OpenStreetMap by fucking up the data, but the heroic volunteers fixed that quite quickly and kept a close eye on edits.
Fuck people who ruin cool and nice things. And even though some of this kind of malice is state funded, I still blame the asshats for putting money before anything else. If everyone acted like these assholes their lives would miserable too.
Is there any indication they come from Russia?
Also some Russian hackers are brought down the Internet Archive
Er, do you mean the Russian hackers brought down the IA (and why, I’d peg government actors for that, more to lose, and more competent with legality) or were brought down by the IA, in which case I missed it.
No judgement, English grammar is obscure, but this sentence is ambiguous and incorrect.
Great. First it was the Internet Archive, now Wikipedia.
AI is the nuke of the World Information War 1
Whoa
i dunno, critical support in their protracted ai war against Natopedia shrug-outta-hecks i guess?
Your dumb ass probably wouldnt even know what NATO is without Wikipedia.
Just block hexbear and save yourself some stress.
I mean I didn’t know the NATO was that bad until I read about operation gladio lmao
Mummy and daddy not paying you enough attention again?
Funny how quick fascists turn to ad hominem when they have zero arguments
People didn’t allow you to use it as a source in school because those rules were made by people that just didn’t understand technology.
As for it now being filled with shit, that’s just ignorant. It’s not like they accept edits and publish them from anybody that submits one, they’re reviewed and stuff that is well known or not up for debate is as accurate as can be.
How does it differ from Encarta 98 which we used in school? Or any encyclopaedia?
It wasnt allowed to be used in school because everyone can edit, and thus the sources can be “It came to me in a dream.”
All encyclopedias can be bad if you cannot recognize the bias that is inherit in everything that was made to contain knowledge. Natopedia is filled with liberal freaks sitting on their little pages like their personal fiefdoms they do not allow edits, no matter how western your source is, and use sources by historians widely disparaged or they leave things out to form a narrative that suits them.
In early November 2015, you will find K.e.coffman in “20 July plot,” an article about the failed plan by German officers to assassinate Hitler. A sentence has jumped out at her. It says that some of the conspirators came to see the plot as “a grand, if futile gesture” that would save “the honour of themselves, their families, the army and Germany.” The claim isn’t supported by any sources. It’s conjecture, hearsay. And to her it seems strangely flattering.
Coffman navigates over to the Wikipedia article about one of the conspirators—Arthur Nebe, a high-ranking member of the SS. Apart from his role in the plot, Nebe’s main claim to notability is that he came up with the idea of turning vans into mobile gas chambers by piping in exhaust fumes. The article acknowledges both of these facts, along with the detail that Nebe tested his system on the mentally ill. But it also says that he worked to “reduce the atrocities committed,” going so far as to give his bloodthirsty superiors inflated death totals.
Coffman will recall that she feels “totally disoriented.” She cannot believe that an innovator in mass murder would have tried to protect the Jews and other supposed subhumans his troops rounded up. She checks the footnotes. The claim is attributed to War of Extermination, a compendium of academic essays originally published in 1995.
Coffman knows the book is legit, because she happens to have a copy on loan from the library. When she goes to the cited page, she finds a paragraph that appears to confirm all the Wikipedia article’s wild claims. But then she reads the first sentence of the next paragraph: “This is, of course, nonsense.”
from here
Wikipedia has some good pages and some horrifically bad pages, we all know the one where some american teen made all the scots pages even though he literally didn’t speak a word of scots but there’s tons of other pages that are questionable at best and wrong at worst. The main contributors after decades are still like 80% men and most of them are in a STEM field which again shows in pages that go outside of that narrow niche. I at one point edited some wiki pages myself and you’ll literally have some guy do a fucking edit war because he thinks Somatotypes are real and you have to fight for months because you don’t have the clout of a math nerd.
And this isn’t even looking at the serious Nazi problem wiki has.
Wikipedia had decades to get their act together, they didn’t I doubt they will anytime in the future because of how their whole shitty system works.
lmao
Good guess probably nato enemies comitting war crimes by attacking civil Infrastructur
Foni@lemm.ee 2 months ago
How much of an idiot do you have to be to attack Wikipedia?
uienia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think Hanlons razor is in desperate need of an update, since its premise seems to be based entirely on naivity. These days everything happening on the internet seems more like: “Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice”.
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
So much malice.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
So
rightcorrect.OwlPaste@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Could also be state sponsored actors making alot of noise/work to get their more damagong edits through
Bisexual_Cookie@hexbear.net 2 months ago
same amount as the people attacking the internet archive
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How can we still be surprised by this? We see republicans routinely making a sport out of who can bomb and take a shit on the helpful parts of society every day.
There is no bottom.
I mean, you’re right. No disagreement. This is just what 20% of people do, and a different 40% think that you’re the real asshole if you try to stop them or even just point out it’s bad.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Never attribute malice to what can be explained by stupidity. It probably is some kids.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
They didn’t attribute it to malice. They said idiot, which is pretty synonymous with stupidity.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not about being an idiot. You just don’t seem to have the mental capabilities to get the whole picture.
DiogenesOfMiami@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Why are you attacking Foni@lemm.ee?