[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I think Jimmy's proposal is spot on. A generative AI is a tool, and whoever makes the edit is fully responsible for the edit, no matter whether the text was written by the person or with the help of a generative tool. This has the potential to open us for people who are not good at formulating,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for Transparency Regarding WMF Staff in India

2023-05-17 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Jayantilal, as I'm reading this, mostly as an outsider from a different community who has great appreciation for everything that has been accomplished in various communities in India, I can feel the tension. This is unfortunately nothing new, and it's an ongoing balance that has to be struck

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Todd Allen
Though, this does run the risk of encouraging people to take the "backwards" approach to writing an article--writing some stuff, and then (hopefully at least) trying to come up with sources for it. The much superior approach is to locate the available sources first, and then to develop the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Samuel Klein
First: Wikipedia style for dense inline citations is one of the most granular and articulate around, so we're pushing the boundaries in some cases of research norms for clarity in sourcing. That's great; also means sometimes we are considering nuances that may be new. Second: We're approaching a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Jimmy Wales
One way I think we can approach this is to think of it as being the latest in this progression: spellchecker -> grammar checker -> text generation support We wouldn't have any sort of footnote or indication of any kind that a spellchecker or grammar checker was used by an editor, it's just

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
It's quite interesting how these models ended up being so illiterate and dumb on source reading and interpretation, while so creative and plausible at the same time. I'm sure there's a reason for this, can somebody please point to a link to a place where this is discussed, if you know it? Thanks,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Johan Jönsson
As has been pointed out above, we have the hallucination issues, because AIs/LLMs deal in language and how probable a phrase seems to be, rather than in facts. Beyond the hallucination issues, we have the fact that their answers can't be accessed by other editors. Beyond the fact that their

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread David Gerard
Note that quite often it just *makes up* a plausible-looking source. Because AI text generators just make up plausible text, not accurate text. On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 09:40, Lane Chance wrote: > > Keep in mind how fast these tools change. ChatGPT, Bard and > competitors understand well the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread The Cunctator
Again at no point should even an improved version be considered a source; at best it would be a research or editing tool. On Wed, May 17, 2023, 4:40 AM Lane Chance wrote: > Keep in mind how fast these tools change. ChatGPT, Bard and > competitors understand well the issues with lack of sources,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Lane Chance
Keep in mind how fast these tools change. ChatGPT, Bard and competitors understand well the issues with lack of sources, and Bard does sometimes put a suitable source in a footnote, even if it (somewhat disappointingly) just links to wikipedia. There's likely to be a variation soon that does a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Kiril Simeonovski
Thank you everyone for your input. Your considerations are very similar to mine, and they give a clear direction towards what the guidelines regarding the use of ChatGPT should point to. Best regards, Kiril On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 10:11, Ilario valdelli wrote: > Define "reliable source". > > A

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Ilario valdelli
Define "reliable source". A source is reliable if can be consulted by other people than the editor to check the content. Is this possible with ChatGPT? No, becaue if you address the same question to CHatGPT, you will have a different answer. In this case how the people verificaying the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Anton Protsiuk
Hi Kiril, Thanks for raising an interesting topic. On the first question – ChatGPT obviously shouldn't be used as a reliable source; for various reasons, but primarily because it's a text generator that tends to confidently present completely factually incorrect information. Even the notion of

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread David Gerard
I've mentioned AI text generators on English Wikipedia's Reliable Sources Noticeboard a couple of times, and the consensus each time has been that it's obvious that this rubbish absolutely doesn't belong in en:wp in any manner. The discussions are how to deal with publishers who indulge in this

[Wikimedia-l] ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Kiril Simeonovski
Dear Wikimedians, Two days ago, a participant in one of our edit-a-thons consulted ChatGPT when writing an article on the Macedonian Wikipedia that did not exist on any other language edition. ChatGPT provided some output, but the problem was how to cite it. The community on the Macedonian