Everybody loves Wikipedia, the surprisingly serious encyclopedia and the last gasp of Old Internet idealism!

(90 seconds later)

We regret to inform you that people write credulous shit about “AI” on Wikipedia as if that is morally OK.

Both of these are somewhat less bad than they were when I first noticed them, but they’re still pretty bad. I am puzzled at how the latter even exists. I had thought that there were rules against just making a whole page about a neologism, but either I’m wrong about that or the “rules” aren’t enforced very strongly.

  • nightsky@awful.systemsEnglish
    4·
    17 hours ago

    I also really don’t enjoy AI boom.

    GPT-3 is a large language model that was released in 2020 by OpenAI and is capable of generating high-quality human-like text. […] An upgraded version called GPT-3.5 was used in ChatGPT, which later garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge.

    Who wrote this? OpenAI marketing?

    • blakestacey@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      3·
      17 hours ago

      Let’s see, it cites Scott Computers, a random “AI Safety Fundamentals” website, McKinsey (four times!), a random arXiv post…