<story><title>A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history</title><url>https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed.-?source=channel_rising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hansword</author><text>All the comments here are positive, the range is from slightly amused to comparing her to Borges (rofl).&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t like it the moment I heard this, but now contrarian mode has kicked in:&lt;p&gt;Why isn&amp;#x27;t this destruction of essential information infrastructure?
Why isn&amp;#x27;t this a &amp;#x27;fuck you&amp;#x27; to the millions of volunteer hours W is based on?
Why isn&amp;#x27;t this potentially infecting millions of minds with lies?&lt;p&gt;Why isn&amp;#x27;t this absolutely deplorable?&lt;p&gt;(COI Statement: i am a wikipedia editor for 15+ years, I am a member of my local wikimedia chapter)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ep103</author><text>Completely agree. If she had released this in a different medium it would be a wonderfully fun achievement (which I think is what most of the comments are responding to), but what she actually did is quite literally a detriment to humanity.  It goes against basic, fundamental principles of what it means to be a good person.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history</title><url>https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed.-?source=channel_rising</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hansword</author><text>All the comments here are positive, the range is from slightly amused to comparing her to Borges (rofl).&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t like it the moment I heard this, but now contrarian mode has kicked in:&lt;p&gt;Why isn&amp;#x27;t this destruction of essential information infrastructure?
Why isn&amp;#x27;t this a &amp;#x27;fuck you&amp;#x27; to the millions of volunteer hours W is based on?
Why isn&amp;#x27;t this potentially infecting millions of minds with lies?&lt;p&gt;Why isn&amp;#x27;t this absolutely deplorable?&lt;p&gt;(COI Statement: i am a wikipedia editor for 15+ years, I am a member of my local wikimedia chapter)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiphias2</author><text>&amp;gt; Why isn&amp;#x27;t this destruction of essential information infrastructure?&lt;p&gt;Because it doesn&amp;#x27;t scale. Unlike spam &amp;#x2F; fake news, the effort to take down something like this is smaller than the effort of creating it.&lt;p&gt;Now sadly when people start using GPT-4 for the same thing, the balance changes, and we&amp;#x27;re not far from that..I&amp;#x27;m much more worried about that.</text></comment>