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> Why isn't this destruction of essential information infrastructure?

Because it doesn't scale. Unlike spam / fake news, the effort to take down something like this is smaller than the effort of creating it.

Now sadly when people start using GPT-4 for the same thing, the balance changes, and we're not far from that..I'm much more worried about that.

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That's an interesting take on balance. Although, the determination, not to speak of the will, would usually add to a sentence, the plain damage taken as base-line by some meassure, whereas the individu prospect of future damage is a priori limited by the hope that measurate judgement will deter, because you shan't condem future crimes before they happen.

The problem with fake information on Wikipedia is that poorly sourced documents will source it, which will then be sourced by Wikipedia down the line until the misinformation is self- legitimized.

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