Comment by decimalenough
7 months ago
This is indeed a problem, but it's a different problem from just making shit up, which is an AI specialty. If you see something that's factually wrong on Wikipedia, it's usually pretty straightforward to get it fixed.
> This is indeed a problem, but it's a different problem from just making shit up, which is an AI specialty
It's a bigger problem than AI errors imo, there are so many Wikipedia articles that are heavily biased. A.I makes up silly nonsense maybe once in 200 queries, not 20% of the time. Also, people perhaps are more careful and skeptical with A.I results but take Wikipedia as a source of truth.
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"Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has been critical of Wikipedia since he was laid off as the only editorial employee and departed from the project in 2002.[28][29][30] He went on to found and work for competitors to Wikipedia, including Citizendium and Everipedia. Among other criticisms, Sanger has been vocal in his view that Wikipedia's articles present a left-wing and liberal or "establishment point of view"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia
Exactly