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Despite the efforts of over 30 million editors, Wikipedia sure aint perfect. Some information on Wikipedia lacks a genuine source or citationas we learned with the Pringle Man hoax, this can have a wide-ranging impact on culture or facts. But Meta, formerly Facebook, hopes to solve Wikipedias big problem with AI.

As detailed in a blog post and research paper, the Meta AI team created a dataset of over 134 million web pages to build a citation-checker AIcalled SIDE. Using natural language technology, SIDE can analyze a Wikipedia citation and determine whether its appropriate. It can also find new sources for information already published on Wikipedia.

Meta AI highlights the Blackfoot ConfederacyWikipedia article as an example of how SIDE can improve citations. If you scroll to the bottom of this article, youll learn that Joe Hipp was the first Native American to competefor the WBA World Heavyweight Titlea cool fact that is 100% true. But heres the problem; whoever wrote this factoid cited a source that has nothing to do with Joe Hipp or the Blackfeet Tribe.

In this case, Wikipedia editors failed to check the veracity of a citation (the problem has since been fixed). But if the editors had SIDE, they could have caught the bad citation early. And they wouldnt need to look for a new citation, as SIDE would automatically suggest one.

At least, this is the hypothesis put forth by Meta AI researchers. While SIDE is certainly an interesting tool, we still cant trust AI to understand language, context, or the veracity of anything published online. (To be fair, Meta AIs research paperdescribes SIDE as more of a demonstration than a working tool.)

Wikipedia editors can now test SIDE and assess its usefulness. The project is also available on Github. For what its worth, SIDE looks like a super-powered version of the tools that Wikipedia editors already use to improve their workflow. Its easy to see how such a tool could flag citations for humans to review, at the very least.

Source: Meta AI

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