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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The purpose of this project is not to restrict or ban the use of AI in articles, but to verify that its output is acceptable and constructive, and to fix or remove it otherwise.

Wikipedia's mod team definitely haven't realised it yet, but this part is pretty much a de facto ban on using AI. AI is incapable of producing output that would be acceptable for a Wikipedia article - in basically every instance, its getting nuked.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol i assure you that fidelitously translates to "kill it with fire"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that sounds like text which somebody quickly typed up for the sake of having something.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

it is impossible for a Wikipedia editor to write a sentence on Wikipedia procedure without completely tracing the fractal space of caveats.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

I'd like to believe some of them have, but it's easier or more productive to keep giving the benefit of the doubt (or at at least pretend to) than argue the point.