joanne mcneil

@jomc.bsky.social

Just landed on a Wikipedia page with information that was obviously incorrect and followed the citation link which directed me to ChatGPT generated news garbage. Wikipedia has long been almost impossibly resilient, but LLMs are really reallllly going to strain this resource

Feb 23, 2024 at 01:07 UTC

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Son of 8-Bits @sonof8bits.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 09:41 UTC

I was once a wikipedia writer. One single editor deleted all my work because he thought it was irrelevant. (I’ve never heard of Taylor Swift, can I delete her page now?) So it bothers me that this crap made it on there without scrutiny.

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Montgomery Granger @mjgranger1.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

Poison pill.

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Lance Ellisor @ellisor.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 12:43 UTC

currently experimenting with www.perplexity.ai so far, it’s interesting

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Jonas @rasherdk.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 11:24 UTC

Any source found to be using LLM garbage should be immediately added to WP:DEPS.

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Tony 📊 @tonyvisualizes.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 09:34 UTC

😮

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Everything is Public Health @everythingisph.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 05:28 UTC

Flag the editor who added that incorrect info from the AI generated page

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Aviendha69 - ⊃∪∩⪽ @aviendha69.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 12:57 UTC

Zerged by AI bots. AI viruses. Congrats, techbros, you're destroying the internet with your crap.

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Jennifer Rose @jenni4iowa.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 05:03 UTC

That means that someone put it in without realizing it was by a fake and/or AI site and didn’t really check the source? Yikes.

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Toreole @toreole.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 08:41 UTC

Yikes.

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Fauxmorian @fauxmorian.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 03:31 UTC

The unmaking of reality begins here

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Scott #ACAB Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉 @smenor.com
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 02:11 UTC

Ugh :-/

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Hi, this is Elena @thisiselena.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 01:24 UTC

so sad

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Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 05:08 UTC

This is why I highly encourage students to follow Wiki’s footnotes. Never quote the Wiki, use it to point you to verifiable sources. The latter you can cite.

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Deepshock, now on bluesky @deepshock.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 09:12 UTC

Would the kind of protocols used for vandalism be applicable enough (ideally 1:1) to combating LLM/ChatGPT nonsense?

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Liz @ilisabat.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 02:59 UTC

Ah, shit. What was the article? I'd be interested in seeing it.

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Paul Caruso @youinmyeye.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 03:48 UTC

All of this feels like a blitzkrieg

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duncan @eduncan911.com
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

I'll add my "me too" story. Over a decade of work, I was the sole author of a topic deeply (and quirky) passionate to me. But in a whelm, Editors kept randomly: - deleting photos cause they said it looked copyrighted (nope) - upped and deleted the whole page as "RTFM" No more wikipedia for me.

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Nates Thought's @thoughtsofnate.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 08:29 UTC

Hot take maybe but I think AI flagging could help detect AI sources

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 07:50 UTC

Wikipedia has been my goto starting point for some time now as general search is mostly broken. This is certainly not a good sign.

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Richardson Handjaja @rhandjaja.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 06:15 UTC

If you haven't already reported it, the Reliable Sources Noticeboard is the place to report this.

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@jfl209.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 03:54 UTC

can you share the link?

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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 03:30 UTC

Agony.

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mini "serving lesbian" d'nar @drdnar.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 07:37 UTC

Quick! Send up the @molly.wiki Signal!

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[sʏnᴛʜeᴛıc ʀooᴛ] @syntheticroot.gay
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 02:53 UTC

If wikipedia is dedicated to being accurate - and I do believe they are - its a question of when they change their editing policies with regards to AI sources, not if. At the very least, I am only a little worried. Historically wiki ends up doing the right thing.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 05:38 UTC

What was the ultimate link?

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Molly White @molly.wiki
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

what was the page?

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Energetic Nova @energetic-nova.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 05:04 UTC

Please fix. Or let people know so they can fix?

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Пётр Исотаров @peterisotalo.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 15:56 UTC

Wikipedia veteran editor here. Really would be good to get this fixed. Where did you find this?

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Vailalamadness @vailalamadness.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 05:23 UTC

Wow, imagine the self learning feedback loop that could parent our future. Mr Wiki, may I introduce you to Miss LLM? You could learn a lot from her, and she from you.

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Pavo Roso @leakestwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 20:43 UTC

so you fixed it, right?

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internet freds @esquiring.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 12:48 UTC

which article? I know some people that would love to fix that.

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Magpie @suburbmagpie.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 02:38 UTC

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 13:46 UTC

Hey Joanne- Jimmy Wales just responded to me on twitter asking which page this was. He wants to get on top of this problem. Can you share the url with us so I can give him that info?

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 05:10 UTC

Did you reach out to Jimmy Wales and let him know this is happening?

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Walker, wouldBe Wizard @ferc.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

The army of Wikipedia editors won't let this stand

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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

😏🤦🏾

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jody @jodyshenn.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 00:51 UTC

I saw an article where the free encyclopedia cited random people on TikTok, I’m getting worried

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