2026-04-27 03:15 UTC
The media paid some attention to English Wikipedia's banning AI writing. While I generally support that ban (with some reservations, but whatevs), it's kind of laughable that anyone who takes Wikipedia seriously would use ChatGPT to write Wikipedia articles. I've just tried doing it today for a fairly important American person who surprisingly didn't have a Wikipedia article. It made up a middle name and birth and death dates, even though they are easily findable online.
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@aharoni@wikis.world 2026-04-27 03:23
It also said that he got his BA at MIT, even though he got it at Stanford—a piece of information that is also easily findable online. I'm not even sure that MIT grants BA. And it made up the URL to an obituary by the government agency where he worked. At that point I stopped wasting time on fact-checking this.