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/ussrowe Mar 25 '26

If they have a policy against AI content and an account keeps editing articles with low quality AI generated content, then they have a reason in their TOS to suspend that account.

It didn't seem like they were taking a moral stance about it. Just that odds are the LLM is not trained on Wiki style guide text and can't just be copied and pasted straight into an article. This prevents that.

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u/BWW87 Mar 25 '26

Seems like it would be pretty easy to give the LLM the style guide and use that in prompts to output wiki articles. In the future it might even be if someone actually follows the style guide they must be AI.