Wikipedia prohibits AI-generated articles, but not all its uses.

Generative AI has disrupted Wikipedia. AI models extensively draw from the encyclopedia's content to generate answers for users, who no longer need to visit the site. Consequence: Wikipedia is losing readers. And on the other hand, the ability of generative AI to produce texts per kilometer is an existential threat to the creation of articles and their updates.

Wikipedia limits AI to an assistant role

The English version of Wikipedia has therefore decided to ban the use of large language models (LLM) for generating articles in the encyclopedia, and for rewriting them. The proposal received a « massive support » from the editors, from their act.

This does not mean that generative AI has no place in Wikipedia, but its use must be limited to writing assistance tools: basic correction suggestions, with integration of changes supervised by humans. The LLM must not add its own content.

The use of AI is also authorized to translate articles from other languages into English, but this must follow a strict procedure: editors must know the source language sufficiently well to confirm the accuracy of the translation.

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Source: Wikipedia