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points by liveoneggs 2 days ago | 0 comments

I attempted to fix some AI-generated content that I found on wikipedia recently - it had broken formatting, confusing + made-up text, and links on the wrong keywords; just generally very low quality edits.

I made my edits and they were immediately reverted by wikipedia's own AI bot. I gave up.

[–] Pikamander2 2 days ago

You're allowed to revert ClueBot if it makes a mistake. It won't revert your revert, although it will flag your revert for human review.

[–] MetalBreaksAndB 2 days ago

Could you link me the article? Cluebot is very good, but it does make mistakes sometimes.

[–] jasona123 2 days ago

Also happy to help - Cluebot is mostly helpful but it tends to be overzealous on reverting with new accounts or temp accounts and especially with large-scale changes made by those types of accounts.

[–] insane_dreamer 2 days ago

> especially with large-scale changes made by those types of accounts.

this sounds like a good safeguard

[–] liveoneggs 2 days ago

someone went in a few days ago and fixed the formatting - although it's still wordy and LLM text-y

[–] arjie 2 days ago

Which page? Let me see if I can help.

[–] teddyh 2 days ago

You won’t get a usable reference. Approximately nobody who complains about Wikipedia ever gives links, or even article titles.

[–] arjie 2 days ago

Haha, frequently that is the case. But rarely I do get something worthwhile out of it, like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650158

[–] liveoneggs 2 days ago

I'm not trying to dox myself

[–] MetalBreaksAndB 17 hours ago

IPs aren't public anymore. A permission is needed to view them, and you will NOT have a good time if you intentionally leak one.

[–] teddyh 1 day ago

Links or it didn’t happen.

[–] vintermann 2 days ago

What, and invite an off-site brigade?

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