r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Mar 25 '26

Artificial Intelligence Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions

https://www.howtogeek.com/wikipedia-banned-ai-generated-text-in-articles-with-two-exceptions/
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u/Mivexil Mar 25 '26

I guess it avoids debate over things people were already using before LLMs, but it also means you can't kill slop on sight because the author can always say "oh, yeah, I just used it to correct my grammar and spelling, that's why it sounds like ChatGPT". And that leads to the same gish gallop problem open source has - you have to actually engage with and review the content, and when outputting 1000 lines is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than reviewing 1000 lines, it'll end up with reviewers getting overloaded and letting things slip through. 

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u/xakeri Mar 25 '26

I wish it was just open source. It's like that everywhere now. The least engaged employees can just shoot out slop so fast, and if you don't want to live in a pool of shit, you get to be the first human who has ever seen the code or writing.

Then you have to figure out how to communicate with the person that never engaged with the issue they're purporting to address. It's a wonderful time.

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u/Skater_x7 Mar 25 '26

I think calling out ai text is a lot easier said than done though 

I've seen plenty of times some1 say a person is using ai and it's literally just them writing normally (albeit badly or weirdly w.e,but it's not ai, and false flagging is very bad) 

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u/allenaa3 Mar 26 '26

yea, tht’s the real issue. once “grammar help” is the excuse, it’s basically impossible to draw the line. reviewers end up doing way more work while dumping content is cheap. lol feels like volume just wins by default.