this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
395 points (99.0% liked)

Technology

4411 readers
925 users here now

Which posts fit here?

Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.


Post guidelines

[Opinion] prefixOpinion (op-ed) articles must use [Opinion] prefix before the title.


Rules

1. English onlyTitle and associated content has to be in English.
2. Use original linkPost URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
3. Respectful communicationAll communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. InclusivityEveryone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacksAny kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangentsStay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may applyIf something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.


Companion communities

!globalnews@lemmy.zip
!interestingshare@lemmy.zip


Icon attribution | Banner attribution


If someone is interested in moderating this community, message @brikox@lemmy.zip.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251017020527/https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do you want to replace people that are capable of changing their minds giving input from other people?

I would say we need more of that kind of leadership.

[–] hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

I don't know why backing down after massive backlash is being lauded if I'm being completely honest. I want to replace them because the decision in the first place to pollute Wikipedia at all with AI is so poor that I no longer trust them to make good choices.