Wikipedia just banned AI-written articles

After much debate, Wikipedia has now taken a stance on AI-generated content on its platform: “the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited.” So says the internal policy page, although the declaration does come with a few exceptions.

Wikipedia editors are permitted to use AI services for basic editing of text they’ve written themselves. Any AI-altered text must be reviewed by humans, both to ensure that the AI model hasn’t added its own material and that the core meaning of the text wasn’t changed.