Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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    • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨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?

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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        That number of articles is still pretty impressive. I’d rather have fewer, high quality articles, than millions of terrible quality AI articles.

        The great thing about Wikipedia is that anyone can add articles! It also wouldn’t be too difficult to “translate” regular Wikipedia articles to simple ones. You could even use AI tools to help - there are text leveler tools that will help you recognize which words lower level readers would struggle with and can help you make those changes. But this cannot be an automated process.

        I’ve done graduate level course work on modifying text for “EMLs” - “emerging multilingual learners.” (“ELL” is still okay, but lots of folks in the field prefer EML because it is prioritizing the students “assets.”) I’ve made several assignments for students with reading difficulties. When I did experiment a bit with AI tools to help me with this process, I had to do a lot of fine tuning to get an acceptable product.

        Tbh, you just convinced me right now that I should start adding more articles myself.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Even a human using AI to convert over an article and giving it a once-over would be better than relying on AI entirely.

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