Correction (10/11/24): Lebleu reached out to clarify a few detailed regarding the motivations behing the user posting AI-generated materiel and the examples mentioned. These changes were applied...

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.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The digital dark age will be a real thing, absolutely.

    Interesting idea on a sea of alternative histories. That might be a possible threat.
    Someone else here called it “AI text apocalypse”. I like that term.