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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals".

How this works is it uses ChatGPT to generate a search query, utilizes WP's search API to search for relevant article text, and then uses ChatGPT to extract the relevant part.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Obviously Wikipedia is not a definitive or 100% accurate source but this sounds like a genuinely positive use of AI to combat misinformation. The people it really needs to reach likely won't use it but it's still a good idea.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

They're a non-profit and they're aiming for the largest possible market segment.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For now. Like I said, they're gauging interest in it for now, and it's currently basically a prototype. So kinda ironically, to support free knowledge, we've gotta inconvene (the proper verb is apparently "inconvenience"? sorry that's just too weird) and grovel to Google a bit. Someone can probably write a bs marketing passage about Google's auspices to supplant free knowledge through providing accessibility to a supernation of usuremongers.

Firefox conversion by-hand doesn't seem like it'll be that hard either, thanks to Manifest v3, which removed the stupid deviation from the standard of Chrome using callbacks instead of promises like everyone else does.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Inconvenience" would be the verb for causing an inconvenience. So in the sentence you're going for, "inconvene" would have to be replaced with the passive "be inconvenienced" ("we've gotta be inconvenienced and grovel to google a bit"). I don't believe we have a separate word for "endure an inconvenience", although it seems like the kind of thing some languages might have a single word for. Stylistically I'd probably restructure the sentence to "we've gotta put up with the inconvenience" rather than just using the passive verb, but yeah.

I think you'd most often see this verb in the stock phrase "Sorry to inconvenience you".

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well, I was looking for something along the lines of "inconvene ourselves". Thanks for the insight and writeup for a random internet ~~book~~person.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

These work perfectly on any chromium browser like Brave fyi.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Off topic, but has anyone noticed Wikipedia's starting to feel outdated in places? Way too often there's something that's "as of 2014".

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Can you? I was under the impression it's gotten harder and harder to get things approved.

Edit: Huh, I guess that's just whole new articles.

this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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