"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.

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."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

404 Media
@jalefkowit Doesn’t exactly read like a ban to me, this allowing of slop edits.
@jalefkowit Writing Wikipedia articles using LLM is definitely amongst the most idiotic things I’ve ever heard, you might as well just shut down the site altogether at that point. 

@jalefkowit The monetary value of Wikipedia as a purely himan written text corpus must be protected.

It will not be successfully protected. The snake will eat its own ass.

@jalefkowit this should make Wikipedia one of the great places on the internet reasonably safe from AI mad cow disease.

That is, it will remain a valuable training source for LLMs. A bit of a paradox. Or not. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@jalefkowit It's crucial to keep Wikipedia as clean of AI as possible, I'd like to see anyone pro-AI kicked out of the project entirely. Even a single AI generated article is unacceptable.
@jalefkowit Not sure where the limited exceptions will end up in the long term. The voters are the volunteers doing the real work in developing and maintaining wiki, so they're in the best position to make the call.