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by hayleox 1075 days ago
The Wikipedia community has generally been pretty resistant to allowing fully AI-based tools in. We've had tools such as Lsjbot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot) in the past, but they've failed to gain community consent on any of the large Wikipedias. If someone tries to bring an LLM-based tool to Wikipedia, it would take a lot of finesse to have any shot of the community allowing it.
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I don't think it takes much finesse to just randomly start "improving" articles using the output of an LLM. It only takes a single well meaning yet misguided person. Remember this? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-...
Yeah, definitely a potential problem on the smaller language Wikipedias as the Scots Wikipedia incident shows, but for the big ones, low-quality content from new editors is not really a new problem to deal with.
But what about the whole mass of tech bros who don't understand what LLM's are (random text generators and nothing more), and manually start to add changes? It's a virus polluting every industry.