Jimmy Wales
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I mean, it was really brief.
I went back and researched it.
I'm like, this is really odd.
So, Biography Magazine, which is a magazine published by the Biography TV channel, had a profile of me, and it said, in his spare time, I'm not quoting exactly, it's been many years, but in his spare time, he enjoys playing chess with friends.
I thought, wow, that sounds great.
Like, I would like to be that guy, but actually, I mean, I play chess with my kids sometimes, but no, it's not a hobby of mine.
I was like, where did they get that?
And I contacted the magazine and said, where did that come from?
They said, oh, it was in Wikipedia.
I looked in the history.
There had been vandalism of Wikipedia, which was not damaging.
And it had already been removed.
But then I thought, oh, gosh, well, I better mention this to people because otherwise somebody's going to read that and they're going to add it to the entry and it's going to take on a life of its own.
And then sometimes I wonder if it has because I was invited a few years ago to do the ceremonial first move in the World Chess Championship.
And I thought, I wonder if they think I'm a really big chess enthusiast because they read this biography magazine article.
But that problem, when we think about large language models and the ability to quickly generate very plausible but not true content, I think is something that there's going to be a lot of shakeout, a lot of implications of that.
So, I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on.