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Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia (awful.systems)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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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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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

More distressingly the vibe coding article seems to have been nominated and approved for the "Did you know" section with very little discussion: webarchive:wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know/Approved#Vibe_coding

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    also lol @

    Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding

    cause I love the kayfabe linguistic drift for a term that’s not even a month old that’s probably seen more use in posts making fun of the original tweet than any of the shit the Wikipedia article says

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    did you know: you too can make your dreams come true with Vibe Coding (tm) thanks to this article’s sponsors:

    Replit Agent, Cursor Composer, Pythagora, Bolt, Lovable, and Cline

    and other shameful assholes with cash to burn trying to astroturf a term from a month old Twitter brainfart into relevance

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    "Vibe coding? Back in my day, we called it teledildonics."

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    None of my acquaintances who have Wikipedian insider experience have much familiarity with the "Did you know" box. It seems like a niche within a niche that operates without serious input from people who care about the rest of the project.

    "In The News" is apparently also an editor clique with its own weird dynamics, but it doesn't elevate as many weird tiny articles to the Main Page because the topics there have to be, you know, in the news.

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