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Wikipedia has a new initiative called WikiProject AI Cleanup. It is a task force of volunteers currently combing through Wikipedia articles, editing or removing false information that appears to have been posted by people using generative AI.

Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of the cleanup crew, told 404 Media that the crisis began when Wikipedia editors and users began seeing passages that were unmistakably written by a chatbot of some kind.

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Jesus Christ. The amount of absolute bellends in the world never ceases to confound me.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They used to be contained, every village has their idiot. Now that the internet is the global village, all the formerly isolated idiots have a place to chat.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Amazing how these idiots are this effective...

While us common folk can't organize or agree on anything

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Most of us do something idiotic once and when the opportunity to do it again, pull back and think "this was embarrassing last time, maybe I'll re-evaluate. "

But a dedicated idiotic is a different beast, fill of confidence and have had what ever organ produces shame surgically removed enabling them to commit ever greater acts of idiocy. But then the internet was invented and these people met. Some even had babies. And now there is arms race to see how many idiots can squeeze through the same tiny door. They have recognised their time to shine and seized it with their clammy yet also sticky hands.

Truly, it's inspiring in its own special way