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Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia

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Re: Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia

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> I’ve disabled new page generation for now because someone ran a script overnight to endlessly click links and cost me $70. I don’t really understand why anybody would do that.

Guess it wasn't so endless after all.

Author is assuming malice, but honestly bots clicking links is just what happens to every public site on the internet. Not to mention going down the link clicking rabbit hole is common among wikipedia readers.

All that said, i don't really see the point. Wikipedia's human controls is what makes it exciting.

Re: Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia

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post #3

> I’ve disabled new page generation for now because someone ran a script overnight to endlessly click links and cost me $70. I don’t really understand why anybody would do that. Guess it wasn't so endless after all. Author is assuming malice, but honestly bots clicking links is just what happens to every public site on the internet. Not to mention going down the link clicking rabbit hole is common among wikipedia rea…

more clicks means a bigger wiki which I guess should be the point, unless the generated articles lead to nonsensical strings which sucks, but should be reasonable to prevent

Re: Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia

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post #3

> I’ve disabled new page generation for now because someone ran a script overnight to endlessly click links and cost me $70. I don’t really understand why anybody would do that. Guess it wasn't so endless after all. Author is assuming malice, but honestly bots clicking links is just what happens to every public site on the internet. Not to mention going down the link clicking rabbit hole is common among wikipedia rea…

It’s a poetic end, considering that the very same scraping activity without regard for cost to site operators is how these models are trained to begin with.

Re: Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia

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post #3

> I’ve disabled new page generation for now because someone ran a script overnight to endlessly click links and cost me $70. I don’t really understand why anybody would do that. Guess it wasn't so endless after all. Author is assuming malice, but honestly bots clicking links is just what happens to every public site on the internet. Not to mention going down the link clicking rabbit hole is common among wikipedia rea…

Google and all the other search engines will crawl any public site too.

Re: Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia

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interesting idea, but while it is sold as a way to interact with the knowledge in a model, i suspect the rabbit hole effect and the most tantalizing information in it will be subtlety hallucinated. an efficient delivery vehicle for “computer madness”
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