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points by its-summertime 2 days ago | 0 comments

There was an article, can't remember which, which had an edit that was almost all AI contributions, and added very very little value to the article itself. Looked into the editor, they were participating in one of Wikipedia's school-related programs. I think it makes sense that going out of their way to get contributors who do not care about a topic to contribute, would have this result in part.

[–] britta 2 days ago

WikiEdu is an independent nonprofit that coordinates a lot of programs where college professors assign Wikipedia editing to students, and they recognized that a lot of students were attempting to add AI-generated text to articles. The organization has done a lot of work over the past couple years to train students on using AI constructively (such as to help with finding sources, not to generate article content), detect potential AI-generated contributions from students, and coach students toward doing the right thing.

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipe...

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/07/14/generative-ai-and-wikipe...