Gross. Many of the technical articles on wiki are labors of love by talented people who do a great job breaking down complex concepts into fairly understandable terms.
Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://mattsayar.com/simple-wikiclaudia/
Comments
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
a_person@lemdro.id 3 weeks ago
If i have to rely on ai to read fucking wikipedia of all things then shoot me
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Maybe you have no real need for simple text then? Nice for you and me.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nobody’s complaining about the simple.wikipedia part, but you already know that.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, at that point why bother with wikipedia anyway? If we’re just using AI then we’re just using AI (but I don’t want to just use AI ffs)
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’d rather be waterboarded
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
this just seems like a way for anthropic to get around blocks on scraping wikipedia content :/
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
A lot on here raging against the AI part while missing the simple.wikipedia part.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I don’t think anyone would be upset if the extension would just redirect to simple wiki.
But it’s a bit like having some a bit of poop on your dinner plate. It still ruins the entire thing.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They’re not missing that part. Nobody’s “raging” against simple.wikipedia
Olap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks, I hate it
Pro@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Why?
Olap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because AI sucks at basically all tasks. And if I wanted the simple article I’d have visited the simple article. What you have done is denied entry to one of the most valuable resources ever created: wikipedia
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
It’s AI.
People really despise AI over here. No matter the context.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Because people should be looking to expand their knowledge by getting into the details. By handwaving those details away with an AI summary that may or may not actually summarise the article correctly, people lose the opportunity to learn.
If your attention span or cognitive capacity can’t get you through a basic Wikipedia article you need to work on that, for your own betterment.
If you’re reading an article and you’re lost in the weeds you should be taking a step back to simpler concepts in Wikipedia (or elsewhere) first. Don’t trust a LLM to make a coherent summary about a topic you can’t understand, because you won’t be able to tell if it’s feeding you bullshit.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Because reading comprehension in lazy browsing mode on lemmy, missing the accessibility part.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
On something like wikipedia I only want words that are written by humans, vouched for by individuals who are accountable for what they write.
If I want AI generated content I’ll go to an AI site.
Humans are good at writing. We literally invented it and we’re experts. I’ll stop using wikipedia if they turn into a slop heap.