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.

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Require someone that wants to add stuff to pay a small amount to the Wikimedia Foundation for activating their account and refund it if they moderate a certain amount.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah I mean I’ve had minor edits reversed because I didn’t source the fact properly

      And that was like 10 years ago I’m surprised these edits are getting through in the first place