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.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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      They used to be contained, every village has their idiot. Now that the internet is the global village, all the formerly isolated idiots have a place to chat.