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Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia (awful.systems)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Everybody loves Wikipedia, the surprisingly serious encyclopedia and the last gasp of Old Internet idealism!

(90 seconds later)

We regret to inform you that people write credulous shit about "AI" on Wikipedia as if that is morally OK.

Both of these are somewhat less bad than they were when I first noticed them, but they're still pretty bad. I am puzzled at how the latter even exists. I had thought that there were rules against just making a whole page about a neologism, but either I'm wrong about that or the "rules" aren't enforced very strongly.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ah! Further fucking around leads to a search query for all instances of lesswrong.com in page source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%7Elesswrong.com&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&searchToken=9u6c55in4yuoezpsk08h0czmf

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Via the above search, here's some made-up bullshit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement

And there's a random LessWrong reference in the goddamn introduction here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory