Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Didn’t they just pass a site-wide decision on the use of LLMs in creating/editing otherwise “human made” text?
Why do they need to take the human element out? Why would anyone want them to?
God I hope this isn’t the beginning of the end for Wikipedia. They live and die on the efforts of volunteer editors (like Reddit relied on volunteer mods and third party tool devs). The fastest way to tank themselves is by driving off their volunteers with shit like this.
And it’s absurdly easier to lose the good will they have than to rebuild it.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Wait until you learn about their budget. When they do donation drives with a sad jimmy wales face they make it seem like Wikipedia is about to go offline. However if they were only hosting Wikipedia they already have enough money to do that pretty much until the end of time. However the foundation spends a ton of money on the pet causes of the board members. The causes aren’t necessarily bad or anything, but misleading donors like that is super messed up.