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highplainsdem

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3. Good for Wikipedia. And damn genAI and all the people using it for the wrong reasons. I wouldn't be

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Sun Aug 10, 2025, 07:22 PM

Aug 2025

at all surprised if some of the people submitting AI-generated articles to Wikipedia are doing so deliberately to harm the site. Elon Musk, for instance hates it, so some of his followers might be doing this. All the AI companies exploit Wikipedia, scraping it so often its operating costs are higher. They'd probably be fine with it shutting down, as long as they've scraped everything from it first.

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How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content [View all] usonian Aug 2025 OP

THANKS!!!! elleng Aug 2025 #1

good to hear Eugene Aug 2025 #2

Good for Wikipedia. And damn genAI and all the people using it for the wrong reasons. I wouldn't be highplainsdem Aug 2025 #3

This! 👆👆👆👆👆👆 SheltieLover Aug 2025 #4

I've found that the #1 problem for AI... WarGamer Aug 2025 #5