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.

  • Foni@lemm.eeEnglish
    97·
    2 months ago

    How much of an idiot do you have to be to attack Wikipedia?

    • uienia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      661·
      2 months ago

      I think Hanlons razor is in desperate need of an update, since its premise seems to be based entirely on naivity. These days everything happening on the internet seems more like: “Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice”.

    • OwlPaste@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      Could also be state sponsored actors making alot of noise/work to get their more damagong edits through

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      173·
      2 months ago

      How can we still be surprised by this? We see republicans routinely making a sport out of who can bomb and take a shit on the helpful parts of society every day.

      There is no bottom.

      I mean, you’re right. No disagreement. This is just what 20% of people do, and a different 40% think that you’re the real asshole if you try to stop them or even just point out it’s bad.

    • DrDickHandler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      2 months ago

      It’s not about being an idiot. You just don’t seem to have the mental capabilities to get the whole picture.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    68·
    2 months ago

    There is a group of people who have been systematically dismantling education, making access to information harder, and generally known to fuck shit up because they want to punish people who don’t agree with them.

    • Zacpod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I got permabanned from Reddit for saying, about someone who destroyed a public library: “I wish we could bring back old-school stocks as punishment for whoever did this so the whole town could line up to throw rotten vegetables at them.” Apperently, that’s so radically violent that they had to permaban me.

    • wagesj45@fedia.io
      61·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • ogeist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          The hacker group is 𝐒𝐍_𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀 according to their Profile, they are in Staraya Russa, Novgorod region

          But! It might be a false flag.

          • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Thanks for additional info!

            That’s interesting, actually. I can’t see why Russia the state would be interested in this (it already has issues accessing certain sources, so messing with a free open library is shooting oneself in the foot), so it’s either truly for the lulz (which are probably the most questionable lulz in history), or there’s some truly mastermind plot behind this.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        Also some Russian hackers are brought down the Internet Archive

        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.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    9·
    2 months ago

    Don’t worry, it’s not as bad as the title suggests. The attack on Internet Archive is far, far worse. It’s obviously a bit of a problem, though.