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i wrote wp:llm, it's an essay not a policy, it shouldn't be getting linked to from mainspace as our official take on the issue, and personally it doesn't really make sense to me that we need to be citing vice magazine of all places for speculative commentary on what might-or-might-not be the thinking behind our own project
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In August 2018, a company called Primer reported attempting to use artificial intelligence to create Wikipedia articles about women as a way to address [[gender bias on Wikipedia]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Simonite |first1=Tom |title=Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Wikipedia's Gender Problem |url=https://www.wired.com/story/using-artificial-intelligence-to-fix-wikipedias-gender-problem/ |magazine=Wired |date=3 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Verger |first1=Rob |title=Artificial intelligence can now help write Wikipedia pages for overlooked scientists |url=https://www.popsci.com/artificial-intelligence-scientists-wikipedia |website=Popular Science |language=en |date=7 August 2018}}</ref>
 
===Generative language models===
===ChatGPT===
{{Main|Wikipedia:Large language models}}
 
In 2022, the public release of [[ChatGPT]] inspired more experimentation with AI and writing Wikipedia articles. A debate was sparked about whether and to what extent such [[large language model]]s are suitable for such purposes in light of their tendency to [[Hallucination (artificial intelligence)|generate plausible-sounding misinformation]], including fake references; to generate prose that is not encyclopedic in tone; and to [[Algorithmic bias|reproduce biases]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Stephen |date=2023-01-12 |title=Should ChatGPT Be Used to Write Wikipedia Articles? |url=https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/chatgpt-wikipedia-articles.html |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=Slate Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref name ="vice"/> {{As of|2023|05}}, a draft Wikipedia policy on ChatGPT and similar [[large language model]]s (LLMs) recommendsrecommended that users who are unfamiliar with LLMs should avoid using them due to the aforementioned risks, as well as the potential for [[libel]] or [[copyright infringement]].<ref name ="vice"/> Online communities expert [[Amy Bruckman]] told [[Vice (magazine)|''Vice'']] that she believes that LLM output could be used as a first draft for Wikipedia content, but that such content would have to be scrutinized by a human editor or else it could degrade the overall quality of Wikipedia. She compared potential strategies for remediating low-quality AI content to those for fighting [[vandalism on Wikipedia]].<ref name ="vice">{{cite news |last1=Woodcock |first1=Claire |title=AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart |work=Vice |date=2 May 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
 
==Using Wikimedia projects for artificial intelligence==