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Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions (www.howtogeek.com)
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[–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Seems like there should be a third exception. For those occasions where the article is about LLM generated text. They should be able to quote it when it's appropriate for an article.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That is a reasonable exception to no-AI policies in research papers and newspaper articles, but not for Wikipedia. As a tertiary source, Wikipedia has a strict "no original research" policy. Using AI to provide examples of AI output would be original research, and should not be done.

    Quoting AI output shared in primary and secondary sources should be allowed for that reason, though.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Eh, that's not quite original research. There are plenty of other examples of images and sound files created for Wikipedia. A representative example isn't research, it's just indicating what something is.

    The Wikipedia article on AI slop and generative AI has a few instances of content that's representative to illustrate a sourced statement, as opposed to being evidence or something.

    It's similar to the various charts and animations.

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