He does, but also that piece is based on talking to the WMF employees, who he knows, and multiple of said employees have forwarded the piece to me.

It checks out as a good source.

STOP FINDING THINGS

• WEB PAGES WERE NOT MEANT TO BE FOUND
• YEARS OF SEARCHING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for PAGES of SEO-OPTIMISED AI SLOP
• Wanted to find things anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called WIKIPEDIA “RANDOM PAGE”
• “Yes please give me ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION of my search. Please give me TEN ADS FIRST” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Search engines have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the ad views we gave them

(This is REAL Search results, given by REAL search engines)

• “None of Africa’s 54 recognized countries start with the letter ‘K’.”
• “Add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce”
• “Understood. No more templates—just direct answers, hyper-focused on exactly what you need.”

“Hello Something went wrong and an AI response wasn’t generated”

They have played us for absolute fools

this is a problem we have had for a while now, i assure you

I have no idea and I wonder if The Information does either.

i wish it didn’t

and in Arizona, even the Republicans care about the water

people get told they have too few cites and need to add more. the result:

yeah, the drive to an IPO is purely escape hatch. they did one thing right in that being money bonfires is part of their well-known charm. But this much of a money bonfire, well.

as if they didn’t put enough of a lie to it when they go to court to stop the details being released

this is likely tomorrow’s Pivot

I called it out as lies and bullshit, the poster asserted it was totally true and I asked for numbers to support this statistical claim.

I don’t know of any examples that aren’t LLMs themselves.

If you read the post, you’ll see …

did you mean to post this in this week’s stubsack?

looking very much forward to that crashing head first into arXiv threatening a ban if your chatbot fucks up in your name

the reply is about as close to being nice and helpful as one could be, really

we apologise for the world

i want to speak to the manager of storytelling

(found at https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:x2muxxe5t25hckf22sk25ocf/post/3mlobs4uq422l)

that correlate maybe too well with the Bitcoin dump at the end of January.

ohhh lol holy shit, that’d be a fine thread to pull on