Mastodawn

An AI slop site I encounter a lot when searching is DeepWiki. It scans code and builds "documentation" wiki pages of open source code projects.

It also has a page on @novelwriter. The overarching code structure part is fairly good, and mostly correct but with a few consistently wrong hangups. But the usage section, which is based on my detailed and extensive documentation, is wrong or misleading on a lot of pretty important and basic stuff.

Useless. Just read the docs.

#AI #Slop #DeepWiki

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Veronica Olsen Mar 10

Of course, like all AI slop, it is incredibly verbose and very generic with a low useful info to noise ratio (when it is correct). When I search for info on issues or have technical questions, I have never yet found anything useful there. Even Reddit is more helpful!

I have now blocked it from my search results. I hope users of novelWriter don't rely on it for user documentation.

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Steve Williams

@veronica
It only works reliably, if you know the answer to the question! Even then, you have to coax it toward accuracy, as it invariably gets it wrong first time.