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jonhohle • today at 2:10 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Wikipedia is also a training source and shouldn’t also be a model output for content. Eventually it will be an oroborus, but it seems prudent to avoid that for as long as possible.


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DonaldPShimoda • today at 2:14 PM

A little over a year ago, the MIT Technology Review ran a piece about how outputting AI content to non-English Wikipedia is rapidly corrupting the primary training data for uncommon languages because of exactly this process: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikip...

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phoghed • today at 2:12 PM

The models are already trained on model output on purpose

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