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Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup
48•thinkingemote•1h ago

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maxbaines•1h ago
This is hardly surprising given - New partnerships with tech companies support Wikipedia’s sustainability. Which relies on Human content.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/01/15/wikipedia-ce...

jraph•42m ago
I agree with the dig, although it's worth mentioning that this AI Cleanup page's first version was written on the 4th of December 2023.
Antibabelic•53m ago
I found the page Wikipedia:Signs of AI Writing[1] very interesting and informative. It goes into a lot more detail than the typical "em-dashes" heuristic.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

jcattle•15m ago
An interesting observation from that page:

"Thus the highly specific "inventor of the first train-coupling device" might become "a revolutionary titan of industry." It is like shouting louder and louder that a portrait shows a uniquely important person, while the portrait itself is fading from a sharp photograph into a blurry, generic sketch. The subject becomes simultaneously less specific and more exaggerated."

eurekin•10m ago
That's actually putting into words, what I couldn't, but felt similar. Spectacular quote
KolmogorovComp•53m ago
I wish they also spent on the reverse: automatic rephrasing of the (many) obscure and very poorly worded and/or with no neutral tone whatsoever.

And I say that as a general Wikipedia fan.

philipwhiuk•44m ago
WP:BOLD and start your own project to do it.
progbits•30m ago
The Sanderson wiki [1] has a time-travel feature where you read a snapshot just before a publication of a book, ensuring no spoilers.

I would like a similar pre-LLM Wikipedia snapshot. Sometimes I would prefer potentially stale or incomplete info rather than have to wade through slop.

1: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Coppermind:Welcome

Antibabelic•25m ago
But you can already view the past version of any page on Wikipedia. Go to the page you want to read, click "View history" and select any revision before 2023.
progbits•24m ago
I know but it's not as convenient if you have to keep scrolling through revisions.
weli•14m ago
I don't see how this is going to work. 'It sounds like AI' is not a good metric whatsoever to remove content.
ramon156•7m ago
This is about wiping unsourced and fake AI generated content, which can be confirmed by checking if the sources are valid

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