Wikipedia has a new initiative called WikiProject AI Cleanup. It is a task force of volunteers currently combing through Wikipedia articles, editing or removing false information that appears to have been posted by people using generative AI.
How much of an idiot do you have to be to attack Wikipedia?
I think Hanlons razor is in desperate need of an update, since its premise seems to be based entirely on naivity. These days everything happening on the internet seems more like: “Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice”.
So much malice.
So
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Could also be state sponsored actors making alot of noise/work to get their more damagong edits through
How can we still be surprised by this? We see republicans routinely making a sport out of who can bomb and take a shit on the helpful parts of society every day.
There is no bottom.
I mean, you’re right. No disagreement. This is just what 20% of people do, and a different 40% think that you’re the real asshole if you try to stop them or even just point out it’s bad.
Never attribute malice to what can be explained by stupidity. It probably is some kids.
They didn’t attribute it to malice. They said idiot, which is pretty synonymous with stupidity.
It’s not about being an idiot. You just don’t seem to have the mental capabilities to get the whole picture.
Why would some one do this? Wikipedia its a mark in internet history
Its much funnier to destroy than to create.
We are still monkeys throwing shit around.
Many of us are. Some of us are not.
Also some Russian hackers brought down the Internet Archive
Awhile ago russians were harassing OpenStreetMap by fucking up the data, but the heroic volunteers fixed that quite quickly and kept a close eye on edits.
Fuck people who ruin cool and nice things. And even though some of this kind of malice is state funded, I still blame the asshats for putting money before anything else and taking these jobs. If everyone acted like these assholes their lives would be miserable too.
The biggest threat to OSM these days is Pokémon Go and hostile take overs.
Also some Russian hackers are brought down the Internet Archive
Er, do you mean the Russian hackers brought down the IA (and why, I’d peg government actors for that, more to lose, and more competent with legality) or were brought down by the IA, in which case I missed it.
No judgement, English grammar is obscure, but this sentence is ambiguous and incorrect.
Sorry, I corrected the sentence. Fat gingers
A Russian hacker group attacked the IA and apparently got their hands on the login information.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message
The legal issue is another beast.
Oh, that. Nevermind.
Be well
Is there any indication they come from Russia?
The hacker group is 𝐒𝐍_𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀 according to their Profile, they are in Staraya Russa, Novgorod region
But! It might be a false flag.
Thanks for additional info!
That’s interesting, actually. I can’t see why Russia the state would be interested in this (it already has issues accessing certain sources, so messing with a free open library is shooting oneself in the foot), so it’s either truly for the lulz (which are probably the most questionable lulz in history), or there’s some truly mastermind plot behind this.
AI is the nuke of the World Information War 1
Whoa
Great. First it was the Internet Archive, now Wikipedia.