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Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)

submitted 7 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals".

How this works is it uses ChatGPT to generate a search query, utilizes WP's search API to search for relevant article text, and then uses ChatGPT to extract the relevant part.

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[–] ViscloReader@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

While I see this as one of the rare nice use of IA, if the use is just to fact check some text found on the web. It could also just fetch it on the site instead of using an AI.

Might be overkill to use LLMs here I think...

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The problem arises when a site uses different wording. Wikipedia's search engine isn't that good, so that problem could make the extension fail enough times to stunt retention.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Wikipedia’s search engine isn’t that good

That's a pretty big understatement. It's pretty awful.