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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.

DigDoug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

If they thought this would be well-received they wouldn’t have sprung it on people. The fact that they’re only “pausing the launch of the experiment” means they’re going to do it again once the backlash has subsided.

RIP Wikipedia, it was a fun 24 years.

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pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Not everything is black and white, you know. Just because they have this blunder, doesn’t mean they’re down for good. The fact they’re willing to listen to feedback, whatever their reason was, still shows some good sign.

Also keep in mind the organization than runs it has a lot of people, each with their own agenda, some with bad ones but extremely useful.

I mean yeah, sure, do ‘leave’ Wikipedia if you want. I’m curious to where you’d go.

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- DigDoug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Me saying “RIP” was an attempt at hyperbole. That being said, shoehorning AI into something for which a big selling point is that it’s user-made is a gigantic misstep - Maybe they’ll listen to everybody, but given that they tried it at all, I can’t see them properly backing down. Especially when it was worded as “pausing” the experiment.
  
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- Richat@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  the fact they’re willing to listen to feedback, whatever their reason was, is a good sign Oh you have so much to learn about companies fucking their users over if you think this is the end of them trying to shove AI into Wikipedia
  
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  - pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Then teach me daddy~
    
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