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For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its "Extended Thinking" version) to find an error in "Today's featured article". In 28 of these 31 featured articles (90%), ChatGPT identified what I considered a valid error, often several. I have so far corrected 35 such errors.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Speaking very generally, it's still conceding an amount of human intelligence and there are problems with it that are worth talking about, but it's a use of AI that at least defers to human judgment, and as long as users are still personally researching and writing their own edits I honestly don't hate it. Much.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

it's mostly outsourcing attention, which is pretty acceptable for a large project like wikipedia.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Right - I won't call it a good thing to let people de-skill on reading comprehension skills, but they're donating their labour to a public benefit! I'm hardly going to scold them as if I was their professor.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 3 weeks ago

my thought is mainly that there aren't enough hours in the day to read and check everything on wikipedia. there's a reason the scots vandalism went unnoticed so long, people just don't have the time.

[–] Bldck@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s my main use for LLMs

  • I write the code logic, the main argument points, etc
  • let the LLM lint, format and structure the discussion
  • I provide another round of copy editing, styling and other updates
[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 3 weeks ago

personally i have separate linters, formatters and structure markers that don't raise the temperature of my apartment when in use, but you do you.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

I agree here and this goes back before ai. Any automated thing is fine with humans in the loop but once you take them out is when the trouble starts.