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Policy · Updated 21 Oct, 06:30 pm IST

Volunteers launch WikiProject AI Cleanup to remove AI-written Wikipedia content

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Why it matters for readers: If you use Wikipedia, it explains why editors are removing some articles and working to keep content human-written.

  • WikiProject AI Cleanup is a volunteer effort started in 2023 to find and remove AI-generated material from Wikipedia.1
  • Editors first noticed odd, cliché-filled articles around December 2023 that matched typical ChatGPT output at the time.1
  • Volunteers are developing tools to detect subtler forms of machine-generated content as signs of AI writing have become more structural by 2025.1
  • Ellia Lebleu, a founding member of the project, is pursuing a Ph.D. in AI at the Inria Center of the University of Rennes.1
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