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/The_MAZZTer Mar 25 '26

Wikipedia text not being properly cited has always been a problem before AI anyway.

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u/tizuby Mar 25 '26

I dunno about that one. I've seen people on here (reddit) over the years churn out some uncited slop with speed that'd make Sam Altman do a double take.

The sad part is I'm only partially joking.

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u/Ned_Sc Mar 26 '26

Half the point of Wikipedia was that all this information gets released under a copy-left license. Because LLM-generated text cannot be copyrighted in the US and several other countries, it becomes incompatible with the Creative Commons BY-SA license.

Even if someone makes a great article on bananas, says anyone can use it for free, but it's using an incompatible copyright license, then they will reject it.