Comment on Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations

• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because I see the things they’re getting from Wikipedia and I am them, and they admit they didn’t actually check the sources.

  I’ve have yet to come across any citations that were wrong.

  How would you determine that a cited source was wrong?

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  • crash_thepose@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll click on them and then read them.

    Here are two pages I’ve gone through a lot I can verify have correct citations in them. In fact, one of the citations in one of these is my research! which I know for certain was cited correctly.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

    …m.wikipedia.org/…/Free_and_open-source_software

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll click on them and then read them.

      And how will that allow you to know if they’re right or not?

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      • pfizer_dose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Post-truther detected.

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      • crash_thepose@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then I read them and use my critical thinking skills. For research I put trust in peer review articles by reputable journals.

        But regardless,

        Isn’t that a broader question as to what we consider truth and not something specific to wikipedia ?

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How would you determine that a cited source was wrong?

    Subject matter experts do still exist. They’re dying off, and it’s unclear how many more we intend to create. But we do still have some.

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can’t be a subject matter expert on everything though?

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