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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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[โ€“] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 238 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Further proof that humanity neither deserves nor is capable of having nice things.

Who would set up an AI bot to shit all over the one remaining useful thing on the Internet, and why?

I'm sure the answer is either 'for the lulz' or 'late-stage capitalism', but still: historically humans aren't usually burning down libraries on purpose.

[โ€“] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Maybe a strange way of activism that is trying to poison new AI models ๐Ÿค”

Which would not work, since all tech giants have already archived preAI internet

[โ€“] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah, so the AI version of the chewbacca defense.

I have to wonder if intentionally shitting on LLMs with plausible nonsense is effective.

Like, you watch for certain user agents and change what data you actually send the bot vs what a real human might see.

[โ€“] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

I suspect it would be difficult to generate enough data to intentionally change a dataset. There are certainly little holes, like the glue pizza thing, but finding and exploiting them would be difficult and noticing you and blocking you as a data source would be easy.

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