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Where do you get reliable information nowadays? (scribe.disroot.org)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Search results are useless, AI is poisoning Wikipédia. While I do have the patience to read primary sources in my field of study, it becomes a nightmare to repeat this process for every bit of information I want.

I'm almost signing up for Encyclopedia Britannica. I don't know what else to do.

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[–] 20 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Yeah I don't get that. Wikipedia is a fine source.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Wikipedia has an army of human writers that probably don't take too kindly to AI.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It's actually about 15 people that mostly maintain it.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    [citation needed]

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    Wikipédia is fighting an ongoing and ever increasing issue of collaborators pushing AI text into articles, which contain false information.

    EDIT: Why the downvotes? Your misinformation is not my fault:

    1 in 20 new Wikipédia pages contain AI-generated text: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2454256-one-in-20-new-wikipedia-pages-seem-to-be-written-with-the-help-of-ai/

    Wikipédia attempts to maintain a task force to clean the articles poisoned by AI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_suspected_AI-generated_texts

    AI translations are poisoning non-EN Wikipédia: https://wistkey.medium.com/ai-translations-are-poisoning-wikipedia-and-putting-minority-languages-at-risk-c4539984734c

    AI "contributions" are bringing up recycled information and fake sources, and the human verification often fails: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution

    But sure, keep downvoting me and ignoring the issue, geniuses.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    And there's corporations pushing agendas into primary sources. And there's lying liars who lie for lying's sake.

    If you're going to draw the line at "unassailable truth" then you're doing all the work yourself.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    If you’re going to draw the line at “unassailable truth” then you’re doing all the work yourself.

    and since that's virtually impossible, then perhaps one simply shouldn't trust any news at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Or anything ever. The present is just a fiction made up to explain the current chemical state of your mind.

    Or we could be reasonable. I guess that's a second option.

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