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Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia (awful.systems)

submitted 2 days ago by blakestacey@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Everybody loves Wikipedia, the surprisingly serious encyclopedia and the last gasp of Old Internet idealism!

(90 seconds later)

We regret to inform you that people write credulous shit about "AI" on Wikipedia as if that is morally OK.

Both of these are somewhat less bad than they were when I first noticed them, but they're still pretty bad. I am puzzled at how the latter even exists. I had thought that there were rules against just making a whole page about a neologism, but either I'm wrong about that or the "rules" aren't enforced very strongly.

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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

More distressingly the vibe coding article seems to have been nominated and approved for the "Did you know" section with very little discussion: webarchive:wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know/Approved#Vibe_coding

[–] screechingtard@awful.systems 3 points 14 hours ago

Vibe coding for me will always be the moment we hit peak "AI" Its literally the term con artists use to hock their witchcraft remedies.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

None of my acquaintances who have Wikipedian insider experience have much familiarity with the "Did you know" box. It seems like a niche within a niche that operates without serious input from people who care about the rest of the project.

"In The News" is apparently also an editor clique with its own weird dynamics, but it doesn't elevate as many weird tiny articles to the Main Page because the topics there have to be, you know, in the news.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah, "Did you know" exists to encourage new articles, or major expansions of old ones. it cycles every six hours I think.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

From how they're labeled, I think they cycle every day?

[–] self@awful.systems 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

also lol @

Vibe coding, sometimes spelled vibecoding

cause I love the kayfabe linguistic drift for a term that’s not even a month old that’s probably seen more use in posts making fun of the original tweet than any of the shit the Wikipedia article says

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 21 points 2 days ago

Promptfondler (from Old French prompette-fondeleur)

[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

did you know: you too can make your dreams come true with Vibe Coding (tm) thanks to this article’s sponsors:

Replit Agent, Cursor Composer, Pythagora, Bolt, Lovable, and Cline

and other shameful assholes with cash to burn trying to astroturf a term from a month old Twitter brainfart into relevance

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Vibe coding? Back in my day, we called it teledildonics."

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this would explain so much about the self-declared 10x programmers I’ve met

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

10x programmers used to be a real thing but they got obsoleted by TOPS-20.