As AI makes inroads into the worlds of editorial and media, websites are scrambling to establish ground rules for its usage. This week, Wikipedia banned the use of AI-generated text by its editors ' although it stopped short of banning AI outright from the site's editorial processes. In a recent policy change, the site now states that 'the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited.' This new language updates and clarifies previous, vaguer language that stated that LLMs 'should not be used to generate new Wikipedia articles from scratch.' AI in Wikipedia articles has become a contentious issue among the site's sprawling, volunteer-driven community of editors. 404 Media reports that the new policy, which was put to a vote by the site's editors, garnered majority support ' 40 to 2. 'Editors are permitted to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, and to incorporate some of them after human review, provided the LLM does not introduce content of...
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