Yeah, the catastrophic comments do take it too far… WMF has already announced they’re putting it on hold, so at the very least there’s a lot of discussion with the editors and additional work that will have to happen before this launches - if it ever launches.
Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] 4 days ago
Relax, this is not the doom and gloom some of y’all think this is and that is pretty telling.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Given the degree to which the modern day Wiki mods jump on to every edit and submission like a pack of starved lions, unleashing a computer to just pump out vaguely human-sounding word salad sounds like a bad enough idea on its face.
If the AI is being given priority over the editors and mods, it sounds even worse. All of that human labor, the endless back-and-forth in the Talk sections, arguing over the precise phrasing or the exact validity of sources or the relevancy of newly released information… and we’re going to occlude it with the half-wit remarks of a glorified chatbot?
Woof. Enshittification really coming for us all.