Re: AI agents editing Wikipedia?

humans assisting bots is not a thing I considered.  I think we imagine our
new hCaptcha blocks most bots from creating accounts, but if the bots are
ratatouille-ing the humans... I'll have to ponder that, thx for the idea.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 16:48 Thiemo Kreuz via Wikitech-l <
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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
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