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Wikipedia Bans Artificial Intelligence Text In Entries With Narrow Exceptions
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Wikipedia officially prohibits editors from using large language models or AI tools to generate, rewrite articles on its platform under a new policy update added late last week and enforced immediately as of March 19th at midnight UTC+08h35m EST GMT-4 PST PDT CEST CET EET WAT CAT CST JST.
Key Points
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1Wikipedia has updated its content policy to explicitly prohibit editors from using large language models (LLMs) or AI-generated text for creating, rewriting, editing, translating articles.
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2The ban is not absolute; it allows limited exceptions specifically in the cases of copyediting and translation where no new factual claims are introduced by human review.
Developments
[Mar 27]
Wikipedia announced its updated content policy banning AI-generated text, with reports confirming this occurred on March 26th or late last week prior to the announcement date in various sources.
[Feb/Mar] (Late Last Week)
The specific update citing violations of core content policies was added to Wikipedia's guidelines, leading to a debate on handling LLM usage before its official ban implementation.
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