Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 days agoProblem is they can’t read Wikipedia articles in the first place. A lot of it, in particular anything STEM, is higher level reading.
What you’re advocating for is the same as dropping off a physics textbook at an elementary school.
If someone is going to Wikipedia specifically looking for information in a STEM field, then an AI summary isn’t going to help them. Odds are they can also read, because they’re looking up STEM topics.
Also, is Wikipedia not available around the world, or you just think only Americans can’t read? Inflammatory just for the sake of being inflammatory I’m guessing. Shit troll job.
I thought the AI thing was going to be rolled out only in the USA?
I think that’s not possible. Wikipedia collects as little user data as possible, and providing a different UX in different countries sounds like it would already be too intrusive in that regard.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Thats why I mentioned Simple Wikipedia.
This is far more readable that what an AI generated version of the article make.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Didn’t know that exists, and that needs more marketing. I literally have a “Daily Wikipedia Article” thing and never came across it. And maybe a different name, like Simplified Wikipedia, because I thought you meant something different.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah - tbh the name sucks. I hate recommending it to students, because it feels like I’m calling them dumb.
But yes 100%. Instead of doing dumb AI shit, they should be advertising what they already have.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Wikipedia Simple has fewer articles than regular Wikipedia.
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And how do you plan to convince editors to add more articles to Wikipedia Simple?