Re: AI agents editing Wikipedia?

Thiemo Kreuz via Wikitech-l <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:47:21 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical
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Yea, https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform%C4%83_de_ofert%C4%83 is
clearly AI assisted, obviously made by an advertisement company that
gets paid to hide ads in Wikipedia. What especially sticks out are the
footnotes. They are very equally spread across the article but none of
the footnote has anything to do with the sentence it is attached to.
Some of the footnotes are duplicated. A surprising amount of web links
is broken. Most probably because they used an older AI model but the
actual web pages changed since then.

My guess is that this is not an AI agent but a human that pastes an AI
generated article into VisualEditor. The best suggestion I have is to
raise the barrier before new accounts can create new articles. But I'm
not sure if the issue is big enough to justify this.

Best
Thiemo