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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours ago

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours ago
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“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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    The site engages in holocaust denial, apologia for wehrmacht, and directly collaborates with western governments. On the talk pages users will earnestly tell you that mentioning napalm can stick to objects when submerged in water constitutes “unnecessary POV”, and third-degree burns are painless because they destroy nerve tissue (don’t ask how the tissue got destroyed, and they will not be banned for this so get used to it). Jimmy Wales is a far-right libertarian. It might be a reliable source of information for reinforcing your own worldview, but it’s not a project to create the world’s encyclopedia. Something like that would at least be less stingy about what a “notable sandwich” is.

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      Ah yes, you were personally insulted and now discredit the biggest collection of knowledge the world has ever had. Fuck you, you fool.

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        WRONG. You are thinking of the Quran 🙏🏻🤲🏻

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      As a Wikipedia editor I can comfirm - we regularly say that napalm sticking to objects in water is POV. I do it at least twice a week. I’ll try making a bot to do it automatically so I’ll have more time for holocaust denial.

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        I have been editing Wikipedia since 2004, and my very first edit was to deny a clearly POV edit to a sticky napalm article. It’s kind of a point of pride for me.

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        As a fellow Wikipedia editor I have confirmed that you are in fact the intern who kept making edits directly from the Capitol without even using a VPN.

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      Citation needed.

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      Show me. That’s a simple request.

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      No it doesn’t

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        This is a very low-quality reply. Try making more high-quality replies to contribute to discussions here on Lemmy. Thanks!

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          Like this?

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            I don’t care what that is, you post too much on here. I’m blocking and supplanting you.

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              Supplanting?

              You’ll have to use smaller words for me, boss.

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                He’s gonna be a good father to your children, take the garbage out. Stuff like that. Basic supplanting.

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                i think they need to use smaller words for themself because that is not the correct way to use that one

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          Try not making shit up

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