Read this: How Wikipedia identifies and removes AI slop
Wikipedia has found several details that can indicate an article was AI-generated and unedited.
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At a moment where it feels like the dream of the internet is fading, Wikipedia remains a pleasant outlier: an actual website with free, accessible information, and a reprieve from the algorithmic, profit-oriented world of social media. While the organization hasn’t been totally immune from controversy—earlier this year, the Wikimedia Foundation generated backlash from editors after putting AI-generated article summaries at the top of articles—Wikipedia is making an effort to keep itself free from the slop that has begun to congest so much of the internet.