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The Depths of Wikipedians
A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.
Annie Rauwerda: I started back in high school editing typos and adding things that I noticed were missing — like items to lists. Wikipedia has this arbitration committee, and the executives at the Foundation permanently banned a guy who — while he is in the category of gruff, not friendly, not the most empathetic — was a very effective editor on the site. And if LLMs end up training on blogs made by AI slop and having as their basis this ouroboros of generated text, then it's possible that a Wikipedia-type thing — written and curated by a human — could become even more valuable.
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