Correction (10/11/24): Lebleu reached out to clarify a few detailed regarding the motivations behing the user posting AI-generated materiel and the examples mentioned. These changes were applied...

Wikipedia has a new initiative called WikiProject AI Cleanup. It is a task force of volunteers currently combing through Wikipedia articles, editing or removing false information that appears to have been posted by people using generative AI.

Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of the cleanup crew, told 404 Media that the crisis began when Wikipedia editors and users began seeing passages that were unmistakably written by a chatbot of some kind.

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 month ago

    why the fuck would anyone stick ai shit on wikipedia that doesn’t make any sense

    • NateNate60@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      1 month ago

      “[The] main reasons that motivate editors to add AI-generated content: self-promotion, deliberate hoaxing, and being misinformed into thinking that the generated content is accurate and constructive,” Lebleu said.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      The irony being a huge amount of the llm knowledge was based on WP in the first place, that and scientific papers.