Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia
applemao@lemmy.world 2 days agoMaybe people should actually learn to use their brains so they can read slightly more difficult articles. Holy shit are we gonna have some idiots running around in 10 years. Didn’t think we could get dumber but here we are. (I’m not including people with learning disabilities obviously, they may need an article written or summarized differently to grasp it).
sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Is the point of Wikipedia to provide everyone with information, or to allow editors to spew jargon into opaque articles that are only accessible to experts?
I think it’s the former. There are very few topics that can’t be explained simply, if the author is willing to consider their audience. Best of all, absolutely nothing is lost when an expert reads a well written article.
applemao@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thats fair
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Many people who are in a position to write opaque jargon lack the perspective that would be required to explain it to a person who isn’t already very well-versed. Math articles are often like that, which doesn’t surprise me. I’ve had a few math professors who appeared completely unable to understand how to explain the subject to anyone who wasn’t already good at it. I had to drop their classes and try my luck with others.
I feel like a few of them are in this thread!
sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Trolling aside, yeah, being able to explain a concept in everyday terms takes careful thought and discipline. I’m consistently impressed by the people who write Simple articles on Wikipedia. I wish there were more of those articles.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I wasn’t trolling