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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.
I think the best use is "making filler" so like in a game, having some deep background shit that no one looks at, or making a fake advertisement in a cyberpunk type game. Something to fill the world out that reduces the work of real artists if they choose to
If you can't be bothered to write filler then it's an insult for you to expect others to read it. You're just wasting people's time.
I guess the point is for people to not read the filler.
I think of the text that's too small to read on a computer in the background. It's nice that it's slightly more real looking than a copy/paste screen.
Not even close to worth destroying the environment over, but it's a neat use case to me