Erin Kissane on Nostr: As someone who has participated in multi-year edit wars over, yes, Nazi shit, I will ...
As someone who has participated in multi-year edit wars over, yes, Nazi shit, I will say that my biggest concern here isn’t about unedited LLM text hitting wikipedia articles—that’s v bad but probably largely fixable—but with the way Talk page sophistry is about to become absolutely fucking unmanageable as malicious editors set chatbots to do their infinite argumentation for them
To generalize: LLMs on the web’s surfaces are bad. LLMs in the backstage are much worse.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apartPublished at
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