My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles!
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@yoasif @quarknova Even if you don't want to contribute to Wikipedia for these reasons (completely legitimate), you should want it not to be burned to the ground by LLM slop in the absence of any viable fork to replace it. The policy banning LLM slop benefits us all by preserving a commons that was built before the very unfortunately and shortsighted choice the org made.
@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.
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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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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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
@quarknova On one hand nice on the other hand model operators get a good good mine of curated conent to prevent model collapse -
@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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
@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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
@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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
@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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
Congratulations and 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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
@quarknova chaotic enby goes viral on my timeline :o
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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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
@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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
Congrats and thank you for your valuable service to humanity!
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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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
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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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
@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 :) -
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
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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As luck would have it, the timing didn't work your way. A re-post hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473178
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@alice @garyseven cool username!
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Hi @garyseven, #Welcome to the community!
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I thought the middle one was the most interesting — it’s pre-1927, made with a sharpened nail for the barb instead of a sliver of bone (as became common), was likely made by, sized for, and used by someone just a bit bigger than I am (see the linked article, above), and is beautifully carved with an octopus and two otters — you can see photos of it online:
https://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/item?keywords=A137
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Was asked today, as an icebreaker, to share what I was currently obsessed with.
My answer: The design and function of these wooden (Pacific) halibut hooks that have used by the communities of the northwest coast of the US for thousands of years: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-halibut-hook-revival/
I went to see these examples, from the Haida, at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, yesterday.
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Tony Hoare passed away.
This quote has stuck with me since I first read it as a teen. It sparked a decade-long obsession with simplicity later expanded by Rich Hickey's Simple vs Easy.
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare#The_Emperor's_Old_Clothes
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@IanAMartin @the_turtle @catsalad yeah I know, but I mean
It was a gimmick
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The War on Iran must stop.
