Lemmy itself is a good example of this. Most of the userbase heavily disagrees with the main developers’ political opinions, yet the software works well for everyone.

He also gave the example of a German Wiki community member who wrote a program to verify the ISBN numbers of books cited, and was able to trace notable mistakes to one person. That person ultimately confessed they had used ChatGPT to find citations for text references and the LLM “just very happily makes up books for you,” Wales said.

Well this won’t be a problem with Grokipedia, because it only uses sources that are available online as pure text (I’m pretty sure not even PDFs are used by it).

Wales thinks the public and the media often give Wikipedia too much credit. In its early days, he says, the site was never as bad as the jokes made about it. But now, he says, “We are not as good as they think we are. Of course, we are a lot better than we used to be, but there is still so much work to do.”

Amen, it’s nice to see the level-headedness.

If you click on them, many images on Wikipedia will lead you to their parent page on Commons (click “view on Commons”). Ideally, that’s where all non-copyrighted WP files are placed (unlike those that are under copyright, which limits in how many places they can be used).

Literally the only wiki-based media repository out there.

There’s also monoskop.org (although unlike Wikimedia Commons it doesn’t seem to care about copyright law too much).

I grew up with this even weirder reconstruction:

Of the “free as in freedom” options: Wiktionary and patience. DeepL is not FOSS, and I suppose most other similar sites aren’t.

You’re proving the point, though. People’s ability to write by hand has indeed deteriorated. Literacy has indeed reduced the need for and intensity of memorisation - and having stuff memorised is useful. What skill will AI cause to atrophy? Is that skill merely like handwriting, or something more?

I’ve just tried it out on “All” and basically the entire first page is filled with one user’s posts to !visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com :/

As a Wikipedia editor I can comfirm - we regularly say that napalm sticking to objects in water is POV. I do it at least twice a week. I’ll try making a bot to do it automatically so I’ll have more time for holocaust denial.

You can check old versions of any article by clicking ‘history’. And yeah, the standards used to be pretty low.

That’s certainly one of the takes of all time.

Ukraine can help him solving that problem.

Polish vs Czech :D

These can be lots of fun in Slavic languages. Croatian “ponos” = pride, but Russian “ponos” = diarrhea.

Seriously though, I had a brief period recently where I used the official YT app on my phone (before reinstalling Newpipe), and it was so horrible I started avoiding and minimising my usage of it as much as possible.

There’s a cure: don’t use an adblocker. Since opening any new video will force you to watch half a minute of torturous ads, you’ll restrain yourself and just finish the current video.

These memes about required specs make Linux look like its primary userbase are bums.

The problem might be that Google will argue this isn’t a downgrade at all, but an upgrade (for “security” reasons). I don’t want to be a pessimist, but the tech illiterate judges could eat that up.

A great article, thanks for sharing it.

Research produced by Google before a major expansion of Google Translate rolled out three years ago found that translation systems for lower-resourced languages were generally of a lower quality than those for better-resourced ones. Researchers found, for example, that their model would often mistranslate basic nouns across languages, including the names of animals and colors.

I remember discussing this some time ago on reddit. Google Translate very suddenly introduced a number of small languages and IIRC one of the speakers personally expressed frustration at the horrible output. Some people proposed the speakers correct it (you can always report bad translations there and propose your own), but it hardly requires explaining why that’s a bad and futile idea…

Nonsense, everything is labelled with its original title there. If you’re looking for Russian music there you’ll probably have to use the Russian band name, but otherwise not.

Tbh, the mixed ones are probably the worst off.