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The dangerous and disturbing combination of Wikipedia and AI
American Thinker ^ | 08/21/2025 | D. Parker

Posted on 08/21/2025 9:31:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Most of the time, you don't want to be a Debbie Downer on the current trends.  The pro-freedom side of the political spectrum is currently on a winning streak with President Trump at the helm, and it's becoming more than amusing to say, “Yes, we voted for this.”  However, you also must be clear-eyed about emerging threats on the horizon, and thus, we need to consider the serious issue of the dangerous combination of the incredibly biased Wikipedia and A.I.

It only makes sense to cast a wary eye toward A.I. systems and Wikipedia, and they're teaming up to compound the problem.  This may not matter with most subjects, given that there is some transparency with the latter, but when taken in combination with the always murky A.I. processes and controversial subjects, we have a recipe for disaster.  A recent PragerU video gives a short overview of the dangers involved:

It's vitally important to ask the questions: Can you trust Wikipedia?  Can you trust the A.I. systems that use Wikipedia as a source?  Because this is the source cited in most Google search results and regurgitated by A.I. systems.

As related in the video, 2016 was a watershed moment for the left.  When Donald Trump unexpectedly trounced Hillary Clinton in what was supposed to be her coronation, the left became determined to control the internet, or they would lose again.  Thus, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)  — Wikipedia's parent organization, under the direction of executive director Katherine Maher — implemented the Wikimedia Movement Strategy.

Anti-liberty leftists made it their mission to remake Wikipedia from an encyclopedia into a social justice platform.  Internal documents that are now public detail a shift toward what the WMF termed “knowledge equity”:


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; wikipedia
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To: SeekAndFind

Russigate

Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections:
The Russian government conducted foreign electoral interference in the 2016 United States elections with the goals of sabotaging the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States.
Source:
Wikipedia

Where’s the problem?


21 posted on 08/21/2025 11:14:55 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: Wallace T.

avoid Wikipedia on all political, health, and climate

On economics and technology also, Wiki is inaccurate and biased. Its authors favor one technology over another for no obvious reason except bias. It authors favor one explanation for inflation over another for no obvious reason.


22 posted on 08/21/2025 11:18:34 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: pburiak
I trust Wikipedia for things like birth dates, capital cities, population totals, cast lists and titles for movies/TV shows, athlete and team records/stats, song title/artists, etc.

I was about to post something very similar. I go to Wiki often, but strictly for things like biographical information on public figures in various fields and just basic facts and figures. But nothing that involves judgement, or interpretation of history or current events, etc.

23 posted on 08/21/2025 12:49:46 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Garbage in, garbage out.


24 posted on 08/22/2025 6:15:08 AM PDT by bgill
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To: SeekAndFind

bump


25 posted on 08/22/2025 8:02:05 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Republican Wildcat

This forum itself could become populated with accounts that that are run by AI engaging in discussion...and how would we tell?


Darn it, you’re onto me.


26 posted on 08/22/2025 8:03:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Republican Wildcat
This forum itself:, Could become populated with accounts that that are run by AI engaging in discussion...and how could/would we tell?
27 posted on 08/22/2025 1:21:26 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dan Bongino: “No matter how much you hate these people, you don’t hate them enough!”.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Ah ha! You don’t full me!


28 posted on 08/22/2025 4:30:32 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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... nor do you *fool* me. LOL (well you can tell that blunder wasn’t AI, can’t you?)


29 posted on 08/22/2025 4:31:21 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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