The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, made the unfortunate decision to announce the trial of a new generator of articles fed with AI this week. The reaction of the editors of the site was so fast and so vindictive that the organization quickly retreated its idea, announcing a temporary “pause” of the new function.
A spokesman on behalf of the Foundation, which is largely separate from the decentralized community of editors who populate the site with articles, explained last week that, in an effort to make wikis “more accessible to readers worldwide through different projects on the discovery of content”, the organization planned “machined, but moderate editor, summarized simple for readers.” Like many other organizations that have been plagued by new automated characteristics, the range and archive of Wikipedia quickly got angry at the new experimental tool. The answers that are Posted on the open webThey are really something to contemplate.
“What the hell? No, absolutely not,” said an editor. “Not in any way.
“This will destroy any precision reputation that we currently have,” said another editor. “People are not going to read beyond the fluff of AI to see what we really wanted to say.”
Another more editor was even more vehement: “Keep AI out of Wikipedia. That’s it. WMF employees seek to fill their curriculums with IA -related projects should look for new employers.”
“A truly horrible idea,” said another. “Since all WMF proposals occur despite what the real community says, I hope to see at least the survey and that, unlike some WMF surveys, includes one or more options to answer ‘no'”.
“Are you all (that’s why, I mean WMF) Trying Kill Wikipedia? Because this is a good step that way, “said another editor.” We are trying to keep AI outside From Wikipedia, they do not have the powers that force us on us and tell us that we like it. ”
The forum is full of innumerable other negative responses of the editors who expressed a categorical rejection of the tool. Not long after, the organization stopped the characteristic, 404 informed media.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers worldwide”, a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation He told 404 average. “This two -week option experiment focused on making complex wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an Aya Open Weight model by coherence. Cohere Decide what is shown in the information on Wikipedia. ” “
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