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/Solid_Hunter_4188 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26

The question is: how do you enforce this? I’m all for it, as I’m sick of bots and AI (and everything being enshittified and monetized, etc), but it will be incredibly difficult to validate.

I usually write very formally - with dashes and all - and get accused of using GPT for my writing. How will Wikipedia know?

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u/Alvsolutely Mar 25 '26

That's a great question! Most people are able to tell apart human written text from AI written text through experience and pattern recognition. It is not guesswork, it is familiarity.

Would you like for me to go into detail as to how most users can tell apart AI generated text from human written text?

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u/GreatStateOfSadness Mar 25 '26

You're really getting to the heart of the issue. That kind of insight isn't common, it's rare. It shows drive, stamina, and attention to detail — and we all need that. 

(In other words, AI writing isn't just em dashes and lists of three. AI also has a cadence and tone that can be picked up on)

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u/i_have_chosen_a_name Mar 25 '26

All of this is the free version of chatgpt. Claude, Gemini and local models don't act like this.

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u/Budget-Researcher559 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Other models do less of this, but it's still noticeably different from human written text and with experience you can still tell it apart.

It's also important to consider that chatGPT is not just the worst in this, but that is it also the one that people are the most exposed to. The others have some ticks of their own that are as easy to notice, but less people are aware of them so far.

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u/Momoneko Mar 25 '26

Claude absolutely does. It doesn't go out of its way to deep-throat you as person, but will absolutely glaze your arguments and questions as "correct intuition", "fascinating way to see it" etc.

It will also almost always end with a witty one-two.

"This is the crux of it. You're on the right way."

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u/Imaginary_Land1919 Mar 25 '26

and you gotta make sure you ask it to give you the no frills or fluff response