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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Kind of weird to see OP out here arguing for people to donate to Wikipedia...

The core problem seems to be capacity: Wikipedia’s scale, multilingual sprawl, and procedural complexity mean that if Estonia’s and Lithuania's volunteer communities only notice changes when they become “critical,” it may already be too late to prevent a narrative from hardening into the default global summary. Loopholes like this make Wikipedia attractive for hostile info warriors.

But the article is correct, stuff like this can be nipped in the bud, but due to a forced reliance on volunteers, there might not be the manpower to catch these things early.

Don't just give up on Wikipedia, if it wasn't effective these douchebags doing fraudulent editing for propaganda purposes wouldn't be so long the ridiculous amount of time this takes, especially when the account doing it can be identified and easily removed once it's noticed.

No different than banning trolls from a forum.

[-] Eximius@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The wonderful "AI revolution" is kind of the main reason this is an increasingly horrible problem. "Fighting back" against ever "smarter" bots is becoming increasingly hard.

Even if the intents are not malicious, wikipedia is seriously suffering from the "AI revolution", this is a very interesting tiny research project that gives a glimpse of that: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Beginning to think this Putin fellow might be up to no good.

this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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