My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles!
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@dalias @quarknova I agree - I am simply trying to make people aware of the fact that your contributions are no longer protected by share-alike when contributing to Wikipedia, since Wikipedia has opted you out.
If you don't think your contributions should be helping drive the slop that we all bemoan, it is probably a good idea to not continue to fund it for free.
Big Tech can hire people to edit a Wikipedia-like corpus that could conceivably better than Wikipedia; they've got the money.
@dalias @quarknova I don't agree that the commons is preserved, FWIW - I think continuing to contribute acknowledges that your contributions are given as a kind of dual-license - share-alike for the commons, proprietary (and paid for) for big tech.
Downstream from that, since the license is ignored when the trained LLMs output the contributions as public domain, you have preserved the contribution in a very different way than intended -- kind of a monkey paw effect.
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@dalias @quarknova I don't agree that the commons is preserved, FWIW - I think continuing to contribute acknowledges that your contributions are given as a kind of dual-license - share-alike for the commons, proprietary (and paid for) for big tech.
Downstream from that, since the license is ignored when the trained LLMs output the contributions as public domain, you have preserved the contribution in a very different way than intended -- kind of a monkey paw effect.
@dalias @quarknova By allowing big tech to produce public domain works from contributions contributed as share-alike, you destroy the commons from the inside out - you reduce the incentive to contribute as share-alike when others can capture your contributions without needing to give back.
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@dalias @quarknova I don't agree that the commons is preserved, FWIW - I think continuing to contribute acknowledges that your contributions are given as a kind of dual-license - share-alike for the commons, proprietary (and paid for) for big tech.
Downstream from that, since the license is ignored when the trained LLMs output the contributions as public domain, you have preserved the contribution in a very different way than intended -- kind of a monkey paw effect.
@yoasif @quarknova We are not talking about contributing. We are talking about having access to a vast amount of information that has never before existed in one place available to anyone in human history, or letting it be overrun and destroyed by LLM-worshipping vandals. If you don't think the policy to keep the vandals out is a good thing because you're pissed off about what the bad stewards of it all did, and you just want to see it all burn, I don't really think I have anything else to say to you.
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@yoasif @quarknova We are not talking about contributing. We are talking about having access to a vast amount of information that has never before existed in one place available to anyone in human history, or letting it be overrun and destroyed by LLM-worshipping vandals. If you don't think the policy to keep the vandals out is a good thing because you're pissed off about what the bad stewards of it all did, and you just want to see it all burn, I don't really think I have anything else to say to you.
@dalias @quarknova I'm talking about contributing - this whole thread is about contributing.
If you are talking about something else, I'm happy to discontinue discussing.
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@dalias @quarknova I'm talking about contributing - this whole thread is about contributing.
If you are talking about something else, I'm happy to discontinue discussing.
@yoasif @quarknova The thread you replied into is about successfully getting a no-slop policy adopted.
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@yoasif @quarknova The thread you replied into is about successfully getting a no-slop policy adopted.
@dalias @quarknova How is slop inserted into Wikipedia?
Contributions.
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My genuine hope is that this can spark a broader change. Empower communities on other platforms, and see this become a grassroots movement of users deciding whether AI should be welcome in their communities, and to what extent. On their own terms.
A pushback against the #enshittification and forceful push of AI by so many companies in these last few years.
I completely agree. This is not just excellent news for en.Wikipedia, it's also a symbol of holding to a high intellectual standard for other communities, many who are tempted by #TyrannyOfConvenience arguments.
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
@quarknova Thank you - I had no idea this was happening and absolutely would have argued against AI slop on such an important and prominent source of information.
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
@quarknova great work chaotic (good) enby!
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
@quarknova Congratulations, thank you for doing this work!
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
@quarknova chaotic enby goes viral on my timeline
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
@quarknova @joe thank you so much for fighting the good fight there
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
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@quarknova I think that unfortunately, this policy is exactly what big tech wants - fresh training knowledge and training data from humans, which the tech companies are free to remix into new public domain works that are not protected by share-alike.
With this policy, Wikipedia demands that humans work for the bots for free, and the humans can't even take advantage of the bots to work against the theft of the commons.
@yoasif @quarknova man, screw the big tech, can we decide independently in what they want and do and exploit? This is about creating good wiki for humans.
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
@quarknova that's so awesome to hear, tysm for your work on this!!
and side note, thanks for banning so many of the vandals i report on AIV
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My genuine hope is that this can spark a broader change. Empower communities on other platforms, and see this become a grassroots movement of users deciding whether AI should be welcome in their communities, and to what extent. On their own terms.
A pushback against the #enshittification and forceful push of AI by so many companies in these last few years.
@quarknova thank you
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@dalias @quarknova How is slop inserted into Wikipedia?
Contributions.
@yoasif @dalias @quarknova by bots
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
@quarknova@wikis.world this is so important, thank you
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
@quarknova just wanted to say, thank you for your work on this, I love wikipedia, and this gave a bit of hope in a bleak world
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
@quarknova Wish I had seen this, I personally do not write in Wiki but yesterday I watched a video which brought up a kid asking if Abraham Lincoln's voice had been recorded.
I knew Edison's recorder was too late to make this happen but remembered that inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville had made the first recording of a human voice in 1860. Google's AI doesn't mention it was possible but instead only mentions Edison. AI cannot seem to cross reference or info based on old data only.
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