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.
Obligatory cross-reference: This came up in the stubsack before 404media wrote about it.
Fuck it, repeating my joke from the earlier thread: Inviting the most pedantic nerds on Earth to critique your chatbot slop is a level of begging to be pwned that’s on par with claiming the female orgasm is a myth.
I need to check the stubsack more often.
What is stubsack? It just links to Lemmy threads .
The stubsack is the weekly thread of miscellaneous, low-to-mid-effort posts on awful.systems.
The simultaneous problem and benefit of the stubstack thread is that a good chunk of the best posts of this community are contained within them.