„Ich war überrascht, wie verärgert manche Leute waren“: Ein Gespräch mit dem Erfinder von TomWikiAssist, dem Bot, der Wikipedia bearbeitet hat
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/i-was-surprised-how-upset-some-people-got-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-tomwikiassist-the-bot-that-edited-wikipedia/
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So some guy let loose a Claude bot on Wikipedia, and then got surprised when people didn’t like it? How detached from reality are these people?
It’s really difficult to understand the mindset of people like these. Looks like hes aware that there’s going to be mistakes in the ai generated wiki entries. Some may even be completely made up. And his answer to this issue is „those errors will probably fixed by others“. That’s almost as stupid as littering and saying that you are creating jobs since someone else will have to pick it up.
>I’ve been a software engineer for over 20 years.
He REALLY should know better then. He’s plenty old enough to remember the early days of Wikipedia where it was full of errors and people didn’t trust it as a source. They’ve put so much effort in over the years to build up trust, it would only take a few AI hallucinations getting attention for that trust to evaporate overnight.