Correction (10/11/24): Lebleu reached out to clarify a few detailed regarding the motivations behing the user posting AI-generated materiel and the examples mentioned. These changes were applied...

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.

Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of the cleanup crew, told 404 Media that the crisis began when Wikipedia editors and users began seeing passages that were unmistakably written by a chatbot of some kind.

  • kibiz0rEnglish
    702·
    2 months ago

    Unleashing generative AI on the world was basically the information equivalent of jumping headfirst into Kessler Syndrome.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      451·
      2 months ago

      For the uninitiated like me:

      The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is numerous enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.

      Wikipedia link.

      • kibiz0rEnglish
        19·
        2 months ago

        Good call, thank you.

        Also: Referencing Wikipedia in this context is kinda funny.

        • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          I did think that. :) It’s just… So good. I hope it never enshitifies. God help us.