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Jimmy Wales

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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

So you find a dead link and then it could look at the article, see what the sentence before was, what was being supported by that.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

Then it could go and read a bunch of sources, find something that looks like it's it and make a suggestion to you.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

Like it could find two or three sources from known good quality sources and

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

And then all you got to do is click on it and confirm that it's right.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

She's like, oh, wow, that would speed up my work quite a bit.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

And I'm like, yeah, I think that will work.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

I think an AI could do that because it's just got to do a very simple task.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

And because it's only going to make a suggestion.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

If it gets it wrong, that's fine.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

Like, you're still going to do it.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

It's just like what you were going to do anyway, which is click on a bunch of sources and read them, it filters through and finds the most likely ones, and then you go and read those, and it's not great.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

So, like, I don't think we should be afraid of that kind of technology and be like, ah, it all sucks and it's terrible.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

It's like, no, let's use it appropriately.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

Unlike, say, Grokopedia, where they're trying to write the encyclopedia from scratch using, yeah, that's not going to be great.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

One of the ones that I've always found interesting and amusing is there's an article in Wikipedia called Inherently Funny Words.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

Yeah, the great story about it is there was a moment in time when it almost got deleted because it had become kind of a dumping ground in the early days.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

Like people just...

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

like go by and just add some word they thought it sounded funny no sources and all that and so somebody's like oh this is nonsense like people are just writing random words and that's not that's not and and so it they nominated for deletion then we have a whole process and somebody's like wait wait wait hold on a second this is actually a legitimate concept right in the theory of humor and a lot of famous comedians and humorists have talked about it and like they went through and like rigorously sourced it all and uh it became quite a good article yeah

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

The only real casualty to this, there used to be a picture.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1251: Jimmy Wales | Building Trust the Wikipedia Way

It was a cow with horns like strapped to its head with a rope.