Enshittification

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Wikipedia has started allowing AI-generated videos to be added to articles. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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Discovered this today while browsing featured media on Wikipedia Commons.

Today's video on Media Of The Day was a video about having sex in space. It is also pinned to the top of Wikipedia's Sex In Space article.

It was amusing, but didn't include citations or appear otherwise credible. It was made using a service called "simpleshow foundation", which brands itself as "giving you the power to create simple and engaging videos with an easy-to-use, AI-powered video maker platform".

So, yeah, more AI slop.

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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

So, per the comments in this thread, OP is misleading us?

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Look at the date the file was created:

Date 31 May 2016

Going back to the website then finds zero mention of AI nor was the technology really capable of creating anything like that video (or even parts of it)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160401142946/http://simpleshow.com/us-en/

[–] Tyoda@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is narrated by the Kurzgesagt guy, and didn't look AI generated at a glance.

It's also here on youtube from 8 years ago, when this technology was not available for regular folks https://youtu.be/Jy6MwwHpv1s

The yt channel links to https://simpleshow-foundation.org as the website.