I’ve been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years. There’s an editor going wild marking new articles from this year as AI, including one I created that was featured on the front page. They rolled back a major revision I had done of “Mammy Kate” which had previously been based on racist legend.

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I don’t use LLMs to write. (I have used Claude to troubleshoot coding). It feels miserable to fight this.

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Final weekend for “The Workshop of the World” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art! Fabulous and fascinating, bravo @colinfanning.bsky.social ⚒️

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I grew up in the western US where there are no Maureens (my coffee shop name is Maria) and here in New England EVERYONE has an aunt Maureen, which rules, except sometimes I mistakenly get Pamela or maybe Kathleen. I sincerely love it. People treat me with lots of auntly warmth and deference!

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One terrifying thing about LLMs is that it lets GLAM people turn their bad ideas about our values into actionable software. Our systems are about to have the same internal incoherence as our SharePoint sites. We will be able to implement the dumbest and most byzantine rules we can dream of.

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