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Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense
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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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Further proof that humanity neither deserves nor is capable of having nice things.
Who would set up an AI bot to shit all over the one remaining useful thing on the Internet, and why?
I'm sure the answer is either 'for the lulz' or 'late-stage capitalism', but still: historically humans aren't usually burning down libraries on purpose.
Maybe a strange way of activism that is trying to poison new AI models 🤔
Which would not work, since all tech giants have already archived preAI internet
Ah, so the AI version of the chewbacca defense.
I have to wonder if intentionally shitting on LLMs with plausible nonsense is effective.
Like, you watch for certain user agents and change what data you actually send the bot vs what a real human might see.
I don't think so. The volume of data is too large for it to make much of a difference, and a scraper can just mimic a human user agent and work that way.
You'd have to change so much data consistently across so many different places that it would be near-impossible for a single human effort.