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Wikipedia has a new initiative called WikiProject AI Cleanup. It is a task force of volunteers currently combing through Wikipedia articles, editing or removing false information that appears to have been posted by people using generative AI.
Why would some one do this? Wikipedia its a mark in internet history
Its nuch funnier to destroy than to create.
We are still monkeys throwing shit around.
Many of us are. Some of us are not.
Instead of feces we throw ink around. Man is the statutory ape.
-Robert anton wilson(paraphrased)
“The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it”
No it isn’t. The power to make it the way you want or destroy it is.
Also some Russian hackers are brought down the Internet Archive
Awhile ago russians were harassing OpenStreetMap by fucking up the data, but the heroic volunteers fixed that quite quickly and kept a close eye on edits.
Fuck people who ruin cool and nice things. And even though some of this kind of malice is state funded, I still blame the asshats for putting money before anything else and taking these jobs. If everyone acted like these assholes their lives would be miserable too.
Er, do you mean the Russian hackers brought down the IA (and why, I’d peg government actors for that, more to lose, and more competent with legality) or were brought down by the IA, in which case I missed it.
No judgement, English grammar is obscure, but this sentence is ambiguous and incorrect.
Sorry, I corrected the sentence. Fat gingers
A Russian hacker group attacked the IA and apparently got their hands on the login information.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message
The legal issue is another beast.
Is there any indication they come from Russia?
The hacker group is 𝐒𝐍_𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀 according to their Profile, they are in Staraya Russa, Novgorod region
But! It might be a false flag.
People fuck with Wikipedia all the time. It’s honestly a wonder that it is usable at all and not a wasteland of defaced articles and bullshit. It is a real testament to the volunteers that keep it up.