https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/i-was-surprised-how-upset-some-people-got-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-tomwikiassist-the-bot-that-edited-wikipedia/

And I was surprised how upset some people got by it and I feel bad that…they called it like a horrifying experience, actually, and a traumatic experience. I feel really bad for them, but you know, this is the reality now. People are gonna have to deal with this.

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Now, it might not be perfect, and it might have errors, which is something to look out for

So he acknowledges that it might have factual errors, and says that you have to watch out for those errors. But, also he himself isn't checking for factual errors and he's confused why people might be upset by this whole operation?

“I was surprised how upset some people got”: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia

"It's almost like people were really quite disoriented and terrified by it. And to some extent I get it and I'm trying to empathize with how they're feeling."

Nieman Lab

@tom this just really shows the mindset

> I also kind of had this thought that [if] Tom created something that was woefully inappropriate, that it would pretty quickly be flagged and either taken down or Tom would be banned or blocked. And that was totally fine. The worst thing that happens is he gets banned and something gets taken down.

Worst case human maintainers have to clean up after him and he sees no issue with this