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One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI

Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published since ChatGPT's release seem to include AI-written content

By Chris Stokel-Walker

1 November 2024

Wikipedia editors may have to be increasingly on the lookout for AI-written content

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Nearly 5 per cent of new Wikipedia pages that are published in English seem to contain text generated by artificial intelligence, which could reduce the site’s reliability.

Creston Brooks at Princeton University and his colleagues were wondering about the implications of recently rolled-out AI systems called large language models and how these may affect sources of information.

To learn more, they first ran the AI detection tools…

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