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Jimmy Wales

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I mean, it was really brief.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I went back and researched it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I'm like, this is really odd.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I thought, wow, that sounds great.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I was like, where did they get that?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And I contacted the magazine and said, where did that come from?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

They said, oh, it was in Wikipedia.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I looked in the history.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

There had been vandalism of Wikipedia, which was not damaging.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

It's just false.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And it had already been removed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And I thought, I wonder if they think I'm a really big chess enthusiast because they read this biography magazine article.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

So, I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on.