• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Jimmy wales owns “Fandom,” The ad-ridden, co-opted wiki that has deep hooks into twitch and is itself trying to be a social media platform.

    Way to be part of the problem, Jimmy.

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      5 months ago

      He founded it, and it was bought out 6 years ago. Before the sale, that site was pretty awesome, and now it’s crap. I wonder how much he’s actually contributing to Fandom these days, he seems more interested in other projects.

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    5 months ago

    Dude you’re like a decade late. You can’t start warning us about the dangers of smoking when we already have stage 4 lung cancer and expected to make any difference whatsoever.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    I tried trust cafe around the same time I came here. I ended up falling off, specifically because it wasn’t addicting.

    So, his point here is well made, but in the saddest way possible.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    TOKYO – Wikipedia has become an essential online tool but as misinformation spreads rampantly on the internet, its founder Jimmy Wales tells Nikkei about the challenges the 23-year-old nonprofit encyclopedia faces in building a platform for the distribution of accurate information.

    The advent of generative artificial intelligence further muddies the water, allowing bad actors to create highly convincing videos and audio recordings to perpetuate falsehoods.

    Wales tells Nikkei about the strategies that Wikipedia employs to verify facts and enhance the credibility of its site.

    Q: What challenges have you experienced in fighting against false statements, pursuing and ensuring accuracy, with Wikipedia allowing people to edit freely?

    You can imagine scanning all of Wikipedia on a regular basis and looking for entries that are popular, but also have errors or bias to call to attention.

    Now imagine an AI that can go to your mother … can read all of her past social media posts, LinkedIn, find all information about, and then based on those, to craft a political message now.


    The original article contains 1,282 words, the summary contains 170 words. Saved 87%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Why anybody would promote these anti-technology grifters here? This “libertarian” bro founded one of the worst websites ever.

    People are really buying hard into blaming apps for the very deep sickness of our culture.