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Patrick H. Lauke 21h ago

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia

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

Parade du Grotesque 💀1d ago

Cue attacks by the techno bros in 3... 2...1...

Ken Milmore 1d ago

@ParadeGrotesque @josephcox TBH even if you set aside all of the ethical problems with GenAI, by using it you are leaving yourself open to some future claim that it is based on content which was illegally scraped in violation of copyright. Imagine if one day a takedown notice is issued for any content derived from these models...

Greg Donald 🤘1d ago

@josephcox How will they enforce it? If they plan to check for AI using AI, they're in for a big surprise.

Viktoria D. Richards/Uddelhexe 1d ago

@josephcox
Good!

Bob Tregilus 23h ago

@josephcox I think I'll send them an off-season donation for that decision!

Polly Kraisus 22h ago

@josephcox hell yeah

DB Schwein 20h ago

Oh good. I can go back to donating then 🙂

nojhan, Cassandre de l’analyse systémique 16h ago

@josephcox Wikipedia IN ENGLISH.

Say it.

Say its name.

@josephcox buenas noticias @Shine_McShine 😊

Shine McShine 🐌16h ago

@salva_pl @josephcox menos mal, eh

@Shine_McShine @josephcox sí, porque casi cae 😕.

@josephcox That article is paywalled.

Do a search for "Wikipedia bans AI-generated content" and you will find plenty of non-paywalled articles.

Or just read the original Wikipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models&oldid=1345232327

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models - Wikipedia

Patrick Keller 14h ago

@josephcox and in symmetry, it should also ban the plunder/use by AIs of its human-generated content.