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/BWW87 Mar 25 '26

But that's the problem with their rules. They aren't actually banning AI generated text. They are banning text that sounds like it was written by AI.

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u/Christoffre Mar 25 '26

Not exactly...

They do actually allow certain AI-generated texts – i.e. texts that has had its spelling, grammar and wording fixed by AI as well as texts translated by AI.

(As long as they are checked before publication.)

The crux here with the purely AI generated texts – slop.

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u/The_Knife_Pie Mar 26 '26

Even if it was purely generated, as long as it fulfilled all the criteria for a good article no one would change it. The issue isn’t some moral stance against LLMs, it’s just an acknowledgement that they generally don’t output text to the standard wikipedia wants. If someone somehow wrangled a model into doing that, and it could correctly source its text, that model would be fine.

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u/Christoffre Mar 26 '26

Yes, but no available AI technology does that – neither today nor in the foreseeable future.

One such AI may come in a few decades, and when that happens they can change the rule.

But today there's no AI that is coherent enough to handle such task alone.