How Wikipedia’s Editors Keep the Online Encyclopedia Human-Written
Ellia Lebleu is a founding member of the WikiProject AI Cleanup, a volunteer effort launched in 2023 to find and remove AI-generated material from Wikipedia that breaks the website’s guidelines.
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Key points
- Today, the project’s volunteers are developing tools to detect subtler forms of machine-generated content and debating AI’s role in the world’s most widely used encyclopedia.
- When did you realize Wikipedia had a problem with AI-generated material?
- How do editors spot AI-generated writing today?
- Sometimes an AI hallucinates a citation entirely, although that’s much rarer today because of retrieval-augmented generation that allows the AI to find sources.
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- [1]How Wikipedia’s Editors Keep the Online Encyclopedia Human-WrittenIEEE Spectrum: AI · Oct 21, 01:00 PM
Ellia Lebleu is a founding member of the WikiProject AI Cleanup, a volunteer effort launched in 2023 to find and remove AI-generated material from Wikipedia that breaks the website’s guidelines.
Today, the project’s volunteers are developing tools to detect subtler forms of machine-generated content and debating AI’s role in the world’s most widely used encyclopedia.
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