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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (www.404media.co)
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[โ€“] llama@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But Wikipedia actually is crowd sourced data verification. Every AI prompt response is made up on the fly and there's no way to audit what other people are seeing for accuracy.

[โ€“] Hackworth@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Hey! An excuse to quote my namesake.

Hackworth got all the news that was appropriate to his situation in life, plus a few optional services: the latest from his favorite cartoonists and columnists around the world; the clippings on various peculiar crackpot subjects forwarded to him by his father [...] A gentleman of higher rank and more far-reaching responsibilities would probably get different information written in a different way, and the top stratum of New Chuasan actually got the Times on paper, printed out by a big antique press [...] Now nanotechnology had made nearly anything possible, and so the cultural role in deciding what should be done with it had become far more important than imagining what could be done with it. One of the insights of the Victorian Revivial was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in society, the more similar one's Times became to one's peers'. - The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (1995)

That is to say, I agree that everyone getting different answers is an issue, and it's been a growing problem for decades. AI's turbo-charged it, for sure. If I want, I can just have it yes-man me all day long.