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Wikipedia is one of the last genuine places on the Internet, and these rat bastards are trying to contaminate that, too
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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I think the inherit issue is the current "AI" is inherently non-deterministic, so it's impossible to fix these issues totally. You can feed am AI all the data on how to not sound AI, but you need massive amounts of non-AI writing to reinforce that. With AI being so prevalent nowadays you can't guarantee a dataset nowadays is AI free, so you get the old "garbage in garbage out" problem that AI companies cannot solve. I still think generative AI has it's place as a tool, I use it for quick and dirty text manipulation, but it's being applied to every problem we have like it's a magic silver bullet. I'm ranting at this point and I'm going to stop here.
I honestly disagree that it has any use. Being a statistical model with high variance makes it a liability, no matter which task you use it for will produce worse results than a human being and will create new problems that didn't exist before.
Ai is useful for sorting datasets amd pulling relevent info in some cases, ie propublica has used it for articles.
Obviously simple sorting for them, case law is too complicated for such sifting of data, it was trained on reddit after all.
And when, not if but when, it makes a mistake by pulling hallucinated info or data then it's going to be you're fault, that's why it's a liability.
The simple stuff it can do, trying to remember how propublica used it, but it was just like sifting through a database and pulling out all mentions of a word.
When you get into giving case law, it's way too complicated for it and it hallucinates.