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Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals".

How this works is it uses ChatGPT to generate a search query, utilizes WP's search API to search for relevant article text, and then uses ChatGPT to extract the relevant part.

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[–] dukethorion@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would this be different from any browser that has Wikipedia search built in?

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Presumably it would evaluate claims in the text without the user having to do the search. Sounds cool to me.

[–] dukethorion@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It says the user has to highlight then click the extension.

I can currently right-click and then click "Search on Wikipedia" in the context menu. I believe this works in both FF and chromium browsers.

Fuck AI.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure where the not-working is here.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do you see it working? I see the result:

There were no results matching the query.

The extension mentioned in the post is supposed to:

return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals

I don't see any relevant quotes, or links to articles, or quality signals.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 days ago

I only realize what you meant now. The extension is a browser extension, not a new Wikipedia feature.