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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.

Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

So they:

Didn’t ask editors/users
noticed loud and overwhelmingly negative feedback
"paused" the program

They still don’t get it. There’s very little practical use for LLMs in general, and certainly not in scholastic spaces. The content is all user-generated anyway, so what’s even the point? It’s not saving them any money.

Also it seems like a giant waste of resources for a company that constantly runs giant banners asking for money and claiming to basically be on there verge of closing up every time you visit their site.

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ooo@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If her list were straight talk:

Were gonna make up shit

But don’t worry we’ll manually label it what could go wrong

Dang no one was fooled let’s figure out a different way to pollute everything with alternative facts
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SilverShark@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I also think that generating blob summaries just goes towards brain rot things we see everywhere on the web that’s just destroying people’s attention spam. Wikipedia is kind of good to read something that is long enough and not just some quick, simplistic and brain rotting inducing blob

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