Wikipedia relies on a wide-ranging network of largely volunteer editors, and the use of AI to write articles had become a hot-button issue among them. So they put it to a vote, with the majority voting against allowing AI at 40 to 2. Per the new policy, “the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited.”
What website is prohibiting AI use in writing articles?
Answer: Wikipedia.
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Here’s one website we can now trust not to be full of AI slop: Wikipedia. The informational website has decided that large language models cannot be used to write its articles.
Wikipedia relies on a wide-ranging network of largely volunteer editors, and the use of AI to write articles had become a hot-button issue among them. So they put it to a vote, with the majority voting against allowing AI at 40 to 2. Per the new policy, “the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited.”
This only bans the use of AI in generating written content — it is still allowed for certain uses in the editing process. “Editors are permitted to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, and to incorporate some of them after human review, provided the LLM does not introduce content of its own,” the policy states. “Caution is required, because LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it is not supported by the sources cited.”
Wikipedia relies on a wide-ranging network of largely volunteer editors, and the use of AI to write articles had become a hot-button issue among them. So they put it to a vote, with the majority voting against allowing AI at 40 to 2. Per the new policy, “the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited.”
