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Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'
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What about any of this remotely connects to "rewriting history and eliminating freedom of speech?"
It's AI involved in the process of editing articles.
Which is not relevant to the actual use case for AI being discussed. There's no direct AI involvement in editing articles being proposed here.
Proprietary AI means corpo involvement, and usually it's the really actively awful sort of techbros, this involvement gives them some power, and this power is a threat. Whether it materializes or not, living in the world we do now, it's only right to be wary. I already figured Wikipedia was on its way out a few months ago and downloaded both the kiwi program reader version and the raw xml dump + file for truly apocalyptic situations.
There are lots of non-proprietary AI models out there, some of them comparable in quality to ChatGPT. Wikipedia could run it themselves if they wanted, no "corpo involvement."