“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.

    • Peanut@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      113·
      23 hours ago

      could you explain how? or how the examples i gave are not as valid to your current direction of critique?

      i’m not saying ‘i’m intelligent’ or ‘the system will not abuse these tools’

      are you suggesting my understanding is overfit to a certain niche, and there is a flagrant blindspot that wasn’t addressed by my earlier comment?

      also i use uncommon words for specificity, not to obfuscate. if something hasn’t made sense, i would also elaborate. (we also have modern tools to help unravel such things as well, if you don’t have a local tutor for the subject.)

      or we can just give inaccurate caricatures of each other, and each-others points of view. surely that will do something other than feed the ignorance and division driven socio-economic paperclip maximizer that we are currently stuck in.

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        17 hours ago

        Note to the Peanut gallery: this guy knows about paperclipmaxxing but not this more famous comic. Curious. lmfao

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        9·
        23 hours ago

        holy shit I’m upgrading you to a site-wide ban

        so many paragraphs and my eyes don’t want any of them

          • self@awful.systemsEnglish
            7·
            17 hours ago

            this one was definitely my pleasure

            “how can you fools not see that Wikipedia’s utterly inaccurate summary LLM is exactly like digital art, 3D art, and CGI, which are all the same thing and are/were universally hated(???)” is a take that only gets more wild the more you think on it too, and that’s one they’ve been pulling out for at least two years

            I didn’t catch much else from their posts, cause it’s almost all smarm and absolutely no substance, but fortunately they formatted it like paragraph soup so it slid right off my eyeballs anyway