Jimmy Wales
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But they said, I'm not deleting it.
I just want to raise the question.
And then there's this really interesting conversation that goes on where –
I think the general consensus was, you know what, this isn't like the alarming headline, racist thing on the front page of Wikipedia.
That sounds – holy moly, that sounds bad.
But it's sort of like, actually, yeah, this probably isn't the sort of analogy that we think is great.
And so we should probably think about how to improve our language and not compare sports people to inanimate objects and particularly be aware of –
Certain racial sensitivities that there might be around that sort of thing, if there is a disparity in the media of how people are called.
And I just thought, you know what?
Nothing for me to weigh in on here.
This is a good conversation.
Like, nobody's saying, you know, people should be banned if they refer to, what was his name?
The fridge, Refrigerator Perry.
you know, very famous comparison to an inanimate object of a Chicago Bears player many years ago.
But they're just saying, hey, let's be careful about analogies that we just pick up from the media.
I said, yeah, you know, that's good.
Oh yeah, I mean it's really important and we talk a lot about weasel words, you know, and...
You know, actually, I'm sure we'll end up talking about AI and ChatGPT, but just to quickly mention, in this area, I think one of the potentially powerful tools, because it is quite good at this, I've played around with and practiced it quite a lot, but ChatGPT 4 is really quite able to take a passage