So the answer to "Why do we assume AI-generated means slop?" is probably "experience", and any proposition starting with "If the content is good enough" is trivially true as a conditional statement with a false antecedent (i.e., ⊨(⊥⇒Q) for all Q).
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So the answer to "Why do we assume AI-generated means slop?" is probably "experience", and any proposition starting with "If the content is good enough" is trivially true as a conditional statement with a false antecedent (i.e., ⊨(⊥⇒Q) for all Q).
To start with, I think the "fringe" aspect played a bigger part in your interaction than the sourcing guidelines (MEDRS) and policies (OR § PRIMARY). I do find it unfortunate that there isn't a better way of informing people wanting to edit the first time, but anything in a contentious topic, whether it's officially designated as such and listed in the list of contentious topics... Well they're probably not the best places to get started because there are a lot of people who do want to pick individual primary sources and overemphasise their weight relative to the body of other primary sources (such as those as reviewed by MEDRS secondary sources).
So if you're editing in a field with a lot of interest from, uh, altmed type people, you're probably going to see much stricter application of the relevant guidelines than other medical topics without such interest unfortunately, and the editors working in such areas are probably very tired of anything that even vaguely looks like promoting altmed. Megavitamin therapy at the moment would still be that even if it's vastly more plausible to actually have a mechanism of action unlike certain other types of altmed.
The parts of a source that do secondary source things are considered a secondary source. I highly doubt many of those sections are entirely de novo without reference to prior evidence syntheses though, considering how much time a proper systematic review takes.
> it's also a bad policy for seemingly controversial topics. the medical establishment is composed of humans with plenty of biases and groupthink, so a perfectly good idea can be shunned or ignored for decades if it's inconvenient to the establishment.
The hierarchy of medical evidence being bad is not really something that Wikipedia (or any encyclopedia) can solve. Something that overturns the establishment of a field would not really be an encyclopedia.
> technically the wikipedia regulations don't outright ban primary literature as long as you give the necessary caveats, but there are plenty of megalomaniacal admins don't care about nuance (e.g. MrOllie)
If you have any specific examples that you believe merit review you are free to forward them to me.
> every voice of opposition to totalitarianism
Unless your definition of "opposition to totalitarianism" is very different from mine, I would hope it is transparent that the examples given in the comment you replied to are not such voices.
I don't really disagree that human cognition is essentially a predictive task though, as I understand it, predictive coding and related theories based on the Bayesian brain hypothesis are fairly popular these days (though maybe not clearly dominant over alterative models? IDK I'm not a neuroscientist). I imagine most people would draft a few tokens before refining them like MTP or diffusion though, if we do decide to use LMs as an analogy to human cognition.