“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/20524171

“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”

Some very out of touch people in the Wikimedia Foundation. Fortunately the editors (people who actually write the articles) have the sense to oppose this move in mass.

  • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I knew AI would eventually come for one of the greatest things humans have ever used the internet for, but I’m so disappointed that it has come from within.

    I’ve cancelled my monthly donations. We can’t trust the Wikimedia Foundation at all, ever again. Genuinely sickening anti-human sentiment from those freaks.

    It is so concerning given that they’re entrusted with something so collaborative and so amazing.