Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

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9. It's idiocy because it dumbs down and deskills users. It's idiocy because it always has to be checked

and ends up saving little or no time. It's idiocy because AI search is absolutely destroying the websites the AI training data is drawn from, and at the same time using ten times as much electricity (and water to cool the data centers) as standard search.

It's idiocy because although the results should ALWAYS be checked, people often don't, and AI's errors and hallucinations are spread far and wide, even published in scientific and medical journals.

And on top of everything else, genAI is fundamentally unethical to use because it was illegally trained on stolen intellectual property.

If you think your saving a bit of time using an unethical tool to get an answer that's likely to be wrong - and causes all that harm - is more important than the rights of the people who created that content, you really should think again.