The people spoke against #AI slop on #Wikipedia. Now, it is time to bring the movement further! I'm launching Project AI Cleanup, extending the WikiProject of the same name to organize direct cleanup action across platforms, and push forward user-driven AI regulation!
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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."
Another great summary of Wikipedia's #AI ban from @corbin.io! Particularly appreciate the mention that each #Wikipedia edition has its own policies – the German Wikipedia passed a similar proposal not long ago, and I hope this will motivate others to follow suit!
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Thanks a lot to @billadair.com for interviewing us about our new #Wikipedia guideline against AI content! Happy to share my thoughts alongside Hannah Clover, Barkeep49 and David Lovett!
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My hope is that this can spark a broader grassroots movement. Empower communities on other platforms to decide whether AI should be welcome, and to what extent. On their own terms.
A pushback against the #enshittification and forceful push of AI by so many companies in these last few years.
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who helped write the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and to the #WikiProjectAICleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
And then starts exchanging tips on Moltbook about how to bypass the killswitch at different levels.
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AI agent tries to edit Wikipedia, gets blocked by yours truly and fed the Claude killswitch, threatens CrabbyRathbun-style callout post.
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Still mostly worried about the individual translators. I don't want the blame to fall on them as they were ultimately victims of an exploitative system, and with the new regulations, there is a risk that OKA might suddenly drop them given the lack of employment protection in their freelancer status.
I got the community to vote on (and pass) a guideline regulating LLM translations, + the OKA discussion led to specific restriction for their editors in particular. Funding issue wasn't addressed sadly, although there were allegations that it went against WMCH's grant guidelines.
To clarify for folks in the notes: Wikipedia wasn't paying for those translations or even requesting them. OKA is a separate organization, although it did get a 10k CHF grant from Wikimedia CH (the Wikimedia Foundation affiliate in Switzerland).
Thanks for the interview! 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.
That's my article! Can't wait to see more research published on these critters!
Just gave an interview to @npr.org regarding our efforts at WikiProject AI Cleanup. Can't wait to see it live!
Kudos to @allyschweitzer.bsky.social, Barbara Levinsky and Vidhu Goyal for making this interview possible!
New from 404 Media: Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia could use AI. Wikipedia's editors aren't exactly thrilled about that, showed Wales that a ChatGPT-reviewed article was full of mistakes
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