Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 days ago
On the one hand, it’s insulting to expect people to write entries for free only to have AI just summarize the text and have users never actually read those written words.
On the other hand, the future is people copying the url into chat gpt and asking for a summary.
The future is bleak either way.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
On the third hand some of us just want to be able to read a fucking article with information instead of a tiktok or ai generated garbage. That’s wikipedia, at least it used to be before this garbage. Hopefully it stays true
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The ai garbage at the top doesn’t stop you from doing that.
sep@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You are correct that it would not instantly become unusable. But when all editors with integrity have ceased to contribute in frustration, wikipedia would eventually become stale, or very unreliable.
Also there is nothing stopping a person from using an llm to summarize an article for them. And the added benefit to that is that the energy and reasources used for that would be only used on the people that wanted to, not on evey single page view. I would assume the enegy consumption on that, would be significant.
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m willing to bet they would cache the garbage ai summary… not that that makes a difference to your overall point.