Wikipedia has started allowing AI-generated videos to be added to articles. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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Discovered this today while browsing featured media on Wikipedia Commons.

Today's video on Media Of The Day was a video about having sex in space. It is also pinned to the top of Wikipedia's Sex In Space article.

It was amusing, but didn't include citations or appear otherwise credible. It was made using a service called "simpleshow foundation", which brands itself as "giving you the power to create simple and engaging videos with an easy-to-use, AI-powered video maker platform".

So, yeah, more AI slop.

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[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

So, per the comments in this thread, OP is misleading us?

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Perhaps not intentionally, super annoying the way they phrased the title though. I guess it makes sense why news media says things like “allegedly” or “possibly”

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

But they're not the same thing. The headline makes it sound as if Wikipedia is deliberately allowing AI-generated video, when the video in question is years old.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah which I didn’t like as well tbh

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