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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 use it to put together study guides so that, instead of spending a bunch of time typing and formatting, I'm spending it studying. It's fed directly from my notes and slides and it rarely gets anything wrong (I read through it twice and cross reference with my notes). If anything, I'm usually removing stuff for being unnecessary or rewording things here and there to be.bstter suited to me. What took several hours now takes 30-45 minutes
Don't take this as a defense of AI, it definitely isn't. If AI disappeared tomorrow the world would be better off. Formatting study guides are literally the only utility I've found in LLMs
Any amount of using AI for learning is learning from Slop which will make you less informed.
Tell that to my 3.9 GPA lol. I'm not learning from slop, I'm using a program to format my notes and slides from my lectures, and then verifying that information before committing it to memory
Man have I got a solution for you, check out this formatted method to accomplish the same task:
My deepest apologies, sir. You're clearly a man of deep intellect and wisdom beyond your years! You obviously know how I should do things and I'd be a buffoon not to follow your sagely demands. How silly was I, a lowly working full time student, to doubt you! I'll get to grinding out those study materials by hand in what precious little free time I have immediately! Executive dysfunction, ADHD, and depression be damned! My limited study time, already hampered by pre-existing conditions, would obviously be better spent fiddling with margins and bullet points on a word document and flashcard sets! The smug satisfaction and sense of superiority, knowing I painstakingly typed out every letter on those documents will surely yeild me the straight A's I so desperately desire, but have yet failed to realize! Thank you, thank you, thank you FiniteBanjo, I don't know where I'd be without you!!!