Overview
- The English-language community approved a new policy through a Request for Comment that forbids using large language models to write or rewrite articles.
- Editors cited hallucinations, fake citations, and heavy cleanup workload as key risks, with bad text also liable to be scraped into future AI training data.
- Basic copyediting of an editor’s own writing remains allowed if the person reviews the changes and confirms the tool did not add new information.
- First-pass translation is permitted only when the editor knows both languages and verifies that the draft matches the sources.
- Enforcement relies on human moderators because detectors are unreliable, repeat misuse can lead to blocks under existing rules, and the change applies only to English Wikipedia while Spanish Wikipedia already has a stricter ban.