For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its "Extended Thinking" version) to find an error in "Today's featured article". In 28 of these 31 featured articles (90%), ChatGPT identified what I considered a valid error, often several. I have so far corrected 35 such errors.

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[–] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

it's mostly outsourcing attention, which is pretty acceptable for a large project like wikipedia.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Right - I won't call it a good thing to let people de-skill on reading comprehension skills, but they're donating their labour to a public benefit! I'm hardly going to scold them as if I was their professor.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    my thought is mainly that there aren't enough hours in the day to read and check everything on wikipedia. there's a reason the scots vandalism went unnoticed so long, people just don't have the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    That’s my main use for LLMs

    • I write the code logic, the main argument points, etc
    • let the LLM lint, format and structure the discussion
    • I provide another round of copy editing, styling and other updates
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