Wikipedia’s editors and readers have a dangerous generational gap.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116059551433682789
> The volunteer community that built this encyclopedia has lately rejected a key innovation designed to serve readers.
this specifically means: they rejected covering WIkipedia in AI slop. This means a generational gap apparently. ok mate
@davidgerard @ieeespectrum
the fucking gall of evoking Elinor Ostrom's work (a lazy misreading of it, even) to suggest that Wikipedia should allow walled garden-erecting, anti-commons monopolists to poison Wikipedia with slop. absolutely, insultingly absurd. no notes. -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116059551433682789
> The volunteer community that built this encyclopedia has lately rejected a key innovation designed to serve readers.
this specifically means: they rejected covering WIkipedia in AI slop. This means a generational gap apparently. ok mate
@davidgerard there’s nothing the kids crave more than LinkedIn-style chatbot slop pushed into one of the last usable websites by a professional engineering organization from 1963 they can’t afford to join
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116059551433682789
> The volunteer community that built this encyclopedia has lately rejected a key innovation designed to serve readers.
this specifically means: they rejected covering WIkipedia in AI slop. This means a generational gap apparently. ok mate
@davidgerard
The author really needs to get in the fucking sea.
"But the volunteer base is aging. A 2010 study found the average Wikipedia contributor was in their mid-twenties; today, many of those same editors are now in their forties or fifties." -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116059551433682789
> The volunteer community that built this encyclopedia has lately rejected a key innovation designed to serve readers.
this specifically means: they rejected covering WIkipedia in AI slop. This means a generational gap apparently. ok mate
@davidgerard come on IEEE, leave Wikipedia alone: if you dont like the truth then you can just go and use an already existing 100% private enterprise AI slop-ipidia; Elon Musk's very own Grokipedia (no I won't link to it).
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@davidgerard there’s nothing the kids crave more than LinkedIn-style chatbot slop pushed into one of the last usable websites by a professional engineering organization from 1963 they can’t afford to join
Gen Z and Gen Alpha readers are accustomed to TikTok, YouTube, and mobile-first visual media.
Ah, I love sweeping generalisations over how (il)literate young people are.
Tell me you don't know the youth of today without telling me you don't know the youth of today
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Wikipedia’s editors and readers have a dangerous generational gap. Can it become something that serves younger audiences, or will it remain stuck in the past? https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-at-25?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
@ieeespectrum Counterpoint: It serves younger readers best by not allowing AI to fill it with garbage and lies.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116059551433682789
> The volunteer community that built this encyclopedia has lately rejected a key innovation designed to serve readers.
this specifically means: they rejected covering WIkipedia in AI slop. This means a generational gap apparently. ok mate
@davidgerard although I agree on keeping AI out, I do think the article is a bit more nuanced.
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Gen Z and Gen Alpha readers are accustomed to TikTok, YouTube, and mobile-first visual media.
Ah, I love sweeping generalisations over how (il)literate young people are.
Tell me you don't know the youth of today without telling me you don't know the youth of today
@sitcom_nemesis @davidgerard I’m imagining the hell wikipedia they’re proposing, where the dreadful generative voice used for TikTok conspiracy videos narrates a slop video extruded from a prompt like “make a 2 minute video from this text” followed by the now-inaccessible last human-written version of the Wikipedia article for the topic at hand
this is hurting my head
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Wikipedia’s editors and readers have a dangerous generational gap. Can it become something that serves younger audiences, or will it remain stuck in the past? https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-at-25?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
@ieeespectrum have you ever considered that the current generation did not ask for AI and according to any anecdotal and scientific evidence I have seen, is not benefiting from it?
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Wikipedia’s editors and readers have a dangerous generational gap. Can it become something that serves younger audiences, or will it remain stuck in the past? https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-at-25?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
The reason Wikipedia doesn't have younger editors is because the onboarding experience as a contributor is equivalent to the question asking experience on Stack Overflow.
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Wikipedia’s editors and readers have a dangerous generational gap. Can it become something that serves younger audiences, or will it remain stuck in the past? https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-at-25?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
@ieeespectrum Reported for misinformation.
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