I agree that our traditional context of truth, and what reality looks
like, is under attack.
And, oh, how happy I am that we under these 20+ years have created our
wonderful Wikipedia with sister project. And not only create a
repository but also a network or 10th of thousand committed and
competent volunteers, supported by a clever infrastructure, including
totally independent steering structure and financing (the endowment fund
is really important in these days)
If we just keep this alive and according to our vision and mission we
will be the Noah's Ark of our time, that will come out as a key
component to the new brave world that will emerge when the current
problematic times is over!
So ,I do not hink we actively should get into the social media mess of
today, even if we, if requests occur, should help in getting our
information available as broadly as possible.
And i also believe the most import for us at this time is to strengthen
the content and infrastructure of our projects
Anders
Den 2025-01-19 kl. 08:02, skrev Fredric Gorin:
Social media is a mixed blessing as it pertains to informational
content. On the positive side it democratizes access and informational
transmission to a much larger number of individuals who can report and
discuss information on an individual or tribal level.
This strength is also the weakness of all social media platforms and
frankly threatening US democracy. Without being grounded by some
incontrovertible facts, , discussion of opinions morph into
“alternative facts”- “the scientific data on smoking causing cancer is
still up for debate”, “global warming from carbon dioxide emissions
has not been conclusively proven”, “the US lunar landing was faked”. Etc.
Wikimedia could provide Wkipedia links during a social media
discussion upon the request of a participant (example “type Wkimedia’s
version of Chatgpt” or “ask Alexa”).
The Wkipedia subject links would provide access on to peer-edited
information about a topic without Wikimedia offering a declaration of
“facts”. Wikipedia should preface the links by explaining how the
information is provided and curated. ‘Asking about the origins of
Covid virus” would expose social media participants to two points of
view and educate them that information is continually being refined
toward a common objective of veracity and not to provide “alternative
truths”. Wikipedia thus serves as a real time educational tool.
A democracy only functions when its populace is educated to accept
some factual underpinnings “ozone layer was being destroyed by
fluorohydrocarbons” and corrective measures has permitted majorly
recovery of the ozone layer.
The US political system is entering rocky waters as a semi-democracy
(see Economist magazine criteria) and the abilty to call a
“WkikChatGPT” by a participant from any platform in the middle of any
discussion provides informational grounding that is peer-reviewed and
updated. It would desirable when data is refuted (“the January 6
storming of the Capitol was peaceful”) to provide a Wiki moderator
(also ChatGPT) query about the facts and assumptions underlying data
refutation.
Let me know if I can be helpful or why is not a useful endeavor.
WikipediaChatGPT will be summoned from outside ant social media
platform The AI will need to recognize that many questions are
rhetorical and to identify them as such.
Let me know how I can be helpful or why this proposal is flawed
Thanks
Fredric Gorin MD PhD
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