Wikipedia to remove low quality unsourced AI created content

11 October 2024

Wikipedia has created a task force to identity instances of poor quality, unsourced content, being generated by AI chatbots. The online encyclopaedia will still allow AI apps to compose articles, provided they do so in accordance with their policies:

The purpose of this project is not to restrict or ban the use of AI in articles, but to verify that its output is acceptable and constructive, and to fix or remove it otherwise.

It’s unfortunate that a resource as trusted as Wikipedia — which is assumed by many readers to be correct and accurate — has become filled with sometimes false and misleading AI made slop.