Comment on The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash.

Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The sad truth is that AI empowers the malicious to create a bigger impact on workload and standards than is scalable with humans alone. An AI running triage on article changes that flags or reports changes which need more input would be ideal. But threat mitigation and integrity preservation don’t really seem to be high on their priorities.

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• espentan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These days, most companies that work with web based products are under pressure from upper management to “use AI”, as there’s a fear of missing out if they don’t. Now, management doesn’t necessarily have any idea what they should use it for, so they leave that to product managers and such. They don’t have any idea, either, and so they look at what features others have built and find a way to adapt one or more of those to fit their own products.

  Slap on back, job well done, clueless upper management happy, even though money and time have been spent and the revenue remains the same.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve already posted this a few times, but Ed Zitron wrote a long article about what he calls “Business Idiots”. Basically, people in decision making positions who are out of touch with their users and their products. They make bad decisions, and that’s a big factor in why everything kind of sucks now.

    wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/ (it’s long)

    I think a lot of us have this illusion that higher ranking people are smarter, more visionary, or whatever. But I think no. I think a lot of people are just kind of stupid, surrounded by other stupid people, cushioned from real, personal, consequences. On top of that, for many enterprises, the incentives don’t line up with the users. At least wikipedia isn’t profit driven, but you can probably think of some things you’ve used that got more annoying with updates. Like google putting more ads up top, or any website that does a redesign that yields more ad space, worse navigation.

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah as more organizations implement LLMs Wikipedia has the opportunity to become more reliable and authoritative. Don’t mess that opportunity up with “AI.”

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