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bet you can think of more (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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i could only fit 5 things on meme

dead beetlejuice "small stuff you can do when it feels like you can't do anything about american fascism 1. backup and seed wikipedia 2. spend less money on corpo 3. support real artists 4. quit corpo social media 5. be mean to cops
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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I have a seedbox and would totally be up to seed Wikipedia. Is there an easy way to automate that always the newest release gets seeded? I don't want to do it manually every day.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Honestly, I wouldn't want it updated constantly. AI and red hats are about to fuck it right to fuck town.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't get AI editing Wikipedia. Surely AI gets it's information from Wikipedia.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Lots of motives, ranging from well-meaning editors trying to use it to help them improve, all the way to government propaganda machines trying to control narratives.

    My personal pet theory is LLM companies themselves trying to poison the well of public information, so that you're forced to use AI instead of traditional search/sites.

    My behavior has already started shifting towards asking AI because I know google results are already flooded with AI nonsense, so I might as well use the latest model and ask it directly. But the last thing we need is our access to information tied up in an AI blackbox

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    But the last thing we need is our access to information tied up in an AI blackbox

    The best course of action is surely therefore not to use the AI blackbox? Using it only helps it in the long run

    Finding alternative search engines and giving them your patronage instead must be a better tactic to preventing the closing off of information to the common person

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Main backups are only done a few times a year. I just grabbed this years and last years for now. I would suggest multiple versions just so you can potentially cross reference and see what changed between updates. For example, what was removed can be just as informative as what was added.

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