[HN Gopher] Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online en...
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Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia
Author : Brajeshwar
Score : 58 points
Date : 2026-03-28 16:34 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| longislandguido wrote:
| Will this open the door to editors' deletion of any content they
| dislike, under the guise that it might (or might not) be AI
| generated?
|
| Can't wait for the 80 page Talk threads.
| kjkjadksj wrote:
| Don't they already do that?
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Source:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_wit...
| slyall wrote:
| This policy has been shared a lot by the anti-AI crowd over the
| last week. They are celebrating it as a major site saying no to
| AI.
|
| It seems a smaller "win" than most think. Just discourages
| wholesale rewriting and creation of new articles using AI.
| Assistance with editing is explicitly allowed.
| Eufrat wrote:
| They seemed open to giving it a try if they were actively
| involved in the experiment. Instead, it feels like a lot of
| people don't really understand how Wikipedia is managed and
| thought that they could use it as a freeform place to get
| credibility or just test their pet projects.
|
| Like, this attempt+ where the bot then attempted to lecture users
| who were hostile towards it before it was eventually banned.
|
| + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TomWikiAssist
| swingboy wrote:
| I've contributed a fair amount over the past few months of
| primarily AI generated content that I mainly just edit for the
| usual AI tropes and it's pretty much all still up.
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