mastodon 4.7.324 yo PhD student in AI, Wikipedia admin and volunteer dev, WikiProject AI Cleanup founder (they/them)
The people spoke against #AI slop on #Wikipedia. Now, it is time to bring the movement further! I'm launching Project AI Cleanup, a broader movement extending the WikiProject of the same name, aimed at organizing direct action against problematic AI content across platforms, and pushing forward user-driven AI regulation!
Whether you want to be a full-blown fighter against AI slop, or just learn how to recognize it in everyday life, you are invited to join!
Congratulations to the #Linux community for coming up with a clear AI policy! Great to see disclosure requirements, and more importantly asking humans to take full responsibility for the code, which should shut off the bulk of the agent-generated slop we're seeing nowadays.
I really like the detailed disclosure format, and would be happy to incorporate something similar for the Wikimedia baseline policy being developed, maybe even standardize it across platforms!
Thanks a lot to Bill Adair for interviewing us about Wikipedia's new guideline against LLM content! Happy to share my thoughts alongside @HannahClover@mastodon.social, Barkeep49 and David Lovett!
https://reporterslab.org/2026/03/23/wikipedia-editors-adopt-stronger-guideline-against-ai-generated-content/
Ran a few numbers regarding the rate of AI page deletions, draftifications, and draft declines on the English #Wikipedia
Data for declines is limited to the 6 month window after which drafts are discarded, the other two go back to when the respective processes were established!
Hi folks! Sorry for not being too active on here recently. My health took a turn for the worse these last few weeks, and, while I'm recovering by now, I couldn't post a lot with everything else going on. I'll try to keep all of you posted soon!
Another great summary of Wikipedia's #AI ban from @corbin@toot.community ! Particularly appreciate the mention that each #Wikipedia edition has its own policies – in fact, the German Wikipedia also successfully passed a similar proposal not long before us, and I hope this will motivate others to follow suit, on Wikipedia and beyond!
https://www.howtogeek.com/wikipedia-banned-ai-generated-text-in-articles-with-two-exceptions/
Thanks for the interview, 404 Media! My biggest worry wrt the current situation is that our remedies mostly focus on the exploited "freelancers" themselves, and we've had little luck regulating the broader structural issue. For me, the organization bears the most responsibility, not the individual translators.
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
Thanks a lot for the interview @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social ! While AI has its place for specialized tools, this will be a breath of fresh air for an overwhelmed community! And my biggest hope:
"Empowering communities on other platforms to decide whether AI should be welcome. On their own terms."
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/