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Podcast: The Daily
Episode: The Sunday Read: โWikipediaโs Moment of Truthโ
Description: In early 2021, a Wikipedia editor peered into the future and saw what looked like a funnel cloud on the horizon: the rise of GPT-3, a precursor to the new chatbots from OpenAI. When this editor โ a prolific Wikipedian who goes by the handle Barkeep49 on the site โ gave the new technology a try, he could see that it was untrustworthy. The bot would readily mix fictional elements (a false name, a false academic citation) into otherwise factual and coherent answers. But he had no doubts about its potential. โI think A.I.โs day of writing a high-quality encyclopedia is comin...