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=== Hoaxes and malicious AI use ===
In 2023, researchers discovered that ChatGPT frequently fabricates information and makes up fake articles for its users. At that time, a ban on AI was deemed "too harsh" by the community.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Woodrock |first=Claire |date=May 2, 2023 |title=AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241004054831/https://www.vice.com/en/article/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart/ |archive-date=October 4, 2024 |website=[[Vice Magazine]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Stephen |date=August 24, 2023 |title=Wikipedia Will Survive A.I. |url=https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/wikipedia-artificial-intelligence-threat.html |website=[[Slate Magazine]]}}</ref> AI was deliberately used to create various hoax articles on Wikipedia. For example, an in-depth 2,000-word article about an Ottoman fortress that never existed was found by Ilyas Lebleu and his team.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Durpe |first=Maggie |date=October 10, 2024 |title=Wikipedia Declares War on AI Slop |url=https://futurism.com/the-byte/wikipedia-declares-war-ai-slop |access-date= |website=[[Futurism (website)|Futurism]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Funaki |first=Kaiyo |date=October 25, 2024 |title=Wikipedia editors form urgent task force to combat rampant issues with recent wave of content: 'The entire thing was ... [a] hoax' |url=https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/ai-content-wikipedia-volunteers-editing/ |website=TCD}}</ref> Another example showed an user adding AI-generated misinformation to an article on [[Estola albosignata|''Estola albosignata'']], a species of beetle. The paragraph seemed normal but referenced an unrelated article.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nine |first=Adrianna |date=October 9, 2024 |title=People Are Stuffing Wikipedia with AI-Generated Garbage |url=https://www.extremetech.com/internet/people-are-stuffing-wikipedia-with-ai-generated-garbage |access-date= |website=[[ExtremeTech]] |language=en}}</ref>
AI has been used on Wikipedia to advocate for certain political viewpoints in articles covered by [[Contentious topics on Wikipedia|contentious topic]] guidelines. One instance showed a banned editor using AI to engage in [[edit wars]] and manipulate [[Albanian history]]-related articles. Other instances included users generating articles about political movements or weapons, but dedicating the majority of the content to a different subject, such as by pointedly referencing [[JD Vance]] or [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy|Volodymyr Zelensky]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Brooks |first1=Creston |last2=Eggert |first2=Samuel |last3=Peskoff |first3=Dennis |date=October 7, 2024 |title=The Rise of AI-Generated Content in Wikipedia |url=https://arxiv.org/html/2410.08044v1 |access-date= |website=[[ArXiv]] |language=en}}</ref>
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