Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
Posted by 404mediaco
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After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia.
“Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies,” Wikipedia’s new policy states. “For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, save for the exceptions given below.”
The new policy, which was accepted in an overwhelming 40 to 2 vote among editors, allows editors to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, which can be incorporated into the article or rewritten after human review if the LLM doesn’t generate entirely new content on its own.
Read more: https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/
Good
Guess I’ll up my donation to them
Good. Wikipedia survives because humans still care enough to keep AI slop out of it.
I hope this leads to more platforms banning it as well.
There’s been so much ai news this week. Is it… finally bursting????
Wikipedia is the closest thing we have to the Library of Alexandria today. You have to double check information from the sources, but I like that you can see how articles were expanded and edited over the years. It’s great to see that AI-generated content was banned considering how much misinformation and disinformation we already have to sift through in the 21st century.
Good!
Good policy. How do they plan to enforce it?
fuck yeah!
Wikipedia is kind of the antithesis of AI. Nothing but tedious, often thankless work by many people over years and shared for free. This is why it is good and worth supporting, and also shows why AI sucks
I read through [this article on tells of AI generated writing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing) that was pretty interesting and helpful
It’s specifically a guide for moderating Wikipedia edits, so some of the sections are less relevant for general use
I LOVE YOU WIKIPEDIa