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Google's woke AI Overview now claims that "War of the Worlds" by HG Wells was "inspired by the plight of Aboriginal Tasmanians after European colonization", which... I have never seen any evidence for. Its source for this outlandish claim? Fucking Wikipedia... (media.kotakuinaction2.win)
posted 1 year ago by bamboozler1 1 year ago by bamboozler1 +103 / -0
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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

here's an idea for a troll op:

find a very obscure and hardly cultural relevant Wikipedia article. something the jannies don't pay attention to. Update it so that the source is "niggers tongue my anus", and see how long it takes for Google's AI to use that as a source.

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– bamboozler1 [S] 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Lol, my IP address unironically got banned for "edit warring", when I tried to (anonymously) change a woke editor's claim that an Australian town is "sovereign, unceded Aboriginal land"...

So now I have to log in and/or spoof my IP address (obviously can use a VPN).

Though before that I successfully changed a few of those things, like removing the dual names in their Abo conlang (for example on pages for bridges over a river - reverting the name of the river to its European version. It's easy with obscure pages, as you point out), so believe me, this isn't my first rodeo, lol...

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– bamboozler1 [S] 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Just checked, my bridge edits are still there. Which very much proves your point, Heretic.

When you edit pages that the jannies/activists don't check, it's quite easy to get away with it, lol...

Someone did this with the page of an Australian (female) hockey player turned footballer turned pundit/influencer (yes, really). First they changed her nickname to "Nappies", and then when she had it changed back (because someone alerted her to it), they changed her birthdate to be nearly a decade older, lol.

Solid troll Though she sort of leaned into the "nappies" thing, afterwards, as a meme, so it worked out alright for all involved, I guess. Took it in good humour.

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