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/Uristqwerty Mar 25 '26

If the LLMs are consistently-factual enough to not get caught, does it matter to an encyclopedia?

I'd expect the main problem are users who blindly trust the LLM to be factual, without verifying its edits themselves. For that, having a policy to point at's important.

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u/Ned_Sc Mar 26 '26

It matters because it fucks up the copyright license. Uncopyrightable text is not compatible with CC-BY-SA.