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[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

Gross. Many of the technical articles on wiki are labors of love by talented people who do a great job breaking down complex concepts into fairly understandable terms.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

If i have to rely on ai to read fucking wikipedia of all things then shoot me

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, at that point why bother with wikipedia anyway? If we're just using AI then we're just using AI (but I don't want to just use AI ffs)

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

Maybe you have no real need for simple text then? Nice for you and me.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Nobody's complaining about the simple.wikipedia part, but you already know that.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

I'd rather be waterboarded

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A lot on here raging against the AI part while missing the simple.wikipedia part.

Before you write something in rage, read this.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't think anyone would be upset if the extension would just redirect to simple wiki.

It's a bit like having bit of poop on your dinner plate. It still ruins the entire thing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They're not missing that part. Nobody's "raging" against simple.wikipedia

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Because AI sucks at basically all tasks. And if I wanted the simple article I'd have visited the simple article. What you have done is denied entry to one of the most valuable resources ever created: wikipedia

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Why?

Because people should be looking to expand their knowledge by getting into the details. By handwaving those details away with an AI summary that may or may not actually summarise the article correctly, people lose the opportunity to learn.

If your attention span or cognitive capacity can't get you through a basic Wikipedia article you need to work on that, for your own betterment.

If you're reading an article and you're lost in the weeds you should be taking a step back to simpler concepts in Wikipedia (or elsewhere) first. Don't trust a LLM to make a coherent summary about a topic you can't understand, because you won't be able to tell if it's feeding you bullshit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You're missing the point. Some people have, for example, dyslexia. Which is the whole point of simple wikipedia. But it's lacking articles.

Of course there's the danger of biased summaries by LLM training and promting.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It's AI.

People really despise AI over here. No matter the context.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No matter the context.

But sometimes because of the context, as in this case, where we want info vouched for by actual humans who did research and who can be held accountable, instead of more slop.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Because reading comprehension in lazy browsing mode on lemmy, missing the accessibility part but rage-baited by AI.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

On something like wikipedia I only want words that are written by humans, vouched for by individuals who are accountable for what they write.

If I want AI generated content I'll go to an AI site.

Humans are good at writing. We literally invented it and we're experts. I'll stop using wikipedia if they turn into a slop heap.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

this just seems like a way for anthropic to get around blocks on scraping wikipedia content :/

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