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On December 6, 2022, a Wikipedia contributor named Pharos created the article "[[Artwork title]]" in his sandbox, declaring he used ChatGPT to experiment with it and would extensively modify it. Another editor tagged the article as "[[original research]]", arguing that the article was initially unsourced AI-generated content, and sourced afterwards, instead of being based on reliable sources from the outset. Another editor who experimented with this early version of ChatGPT said that ChatGPT's overview of the topic was decent, but that the citations were fabricated.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Stephen |date=January 12, 2023 |title=Should ChatGPT Be Used to Write Wikipedia Articles? |url=https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/chatgpt-wikipedia-articles.html |website=[[Slate Magazine]]}}</ref> [[Wiki Education Foundation|The Wiki Education Foundation]] reported that some experienced editors found AI to be useful in starting drafts or creating new articles. It said that ChatGPT “knows” what Wikipedia articles look like and can easily generate one that is written in the style of Wikipedia, but warned that ChatGPT had a tendency to use promotional language, among other issues.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ross |first=Sage |date=February 21, 2023 |title=ChatGPT, Wikipedia, and student writing assignments |url=https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/02/21/chatgpt-wikipedia-and-student-writing-assignments/ |website=[[Wiki Education Foundation]]}}</ref> Miguel García, a former Wikimedia member from Spain, said that when ChatGPT was originally launched, the number of AI-generated articles on the site peaked. He added that the rate of AI articles has now stabilized due to the community's efforts to combat it. He said that majority of the articles that have no sources are deleted instantly or are nominated for deletion.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bejerano |first=Pablo G. |date=August 10, 2024 |title=How Wikipedia is surviving in the age of ChatGPT |url=https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-08-10/how-wikipedia-is-surviving-in-the-age-of-chatgpt.html |access-date= |website=[[El País]] |language=en-us}}</ref>
On August 2025, the Wikipedia community created a policy that allowed users to nominate suspected AI-generated articles for [[speedy deletion]]. Editors usually recognize AI-generated articles because they use citations that are not related to the subject of the article or fabricated citations. The wording of articles is also used to recognize AI writings. For example, if an article uses language that reads like an [[LLM]] response to a user, such as "Here is your Wikipedia article on” or “Up to my last training update”, the article is typically tagged for speedy deletion.<ref name=":
Ilyas Lebleu, founder of WikiProject AI Cleanup, said that he and his fellow editors noticed a pattern of unnatural writing that they managed to connect to ChatGPT. He added that AI is able to mass-produce content that sounds real while being completely fake, leading to the creation of [[hoax]] articles on Wikipedia that he was tasked to delete. Wikipedia created a guide on how to spot signs of AI-generated writing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clair |first=Grant |date=August 20, 2025 |title=Wikipedia publishes list of AI writing tells |url=https://boingboing.net/2025/08/20/wikipedia-publishes-list-of-ai-writing-tells.html |access-date= |website=[[Boing Boing]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
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=== Simple Article Summaries ===
In 2025, Wikimedia started testing a "Simple Article Summaries" feature which would provide AI-generated summaries of Wikipedia articles, similar to [[Google Search]]'s [[AI Overviews]]. The decision was met with immediate and harsh criticism from Wikipedia editors, who called the feature a "ghastly idea" and a "PR hype stunt." They criticized a perceived loss of trust in the site due to AI's tendency to [[Hallucination (artificial intelligence)|hallucinate]] and questioned the necessity of the feature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/yuck-wikipedia-pauses-ai-summaries-after-editor-revolt/|title=“Yuck”: Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editor revolt|first=Ryan|last=Whitwam|date=June 11, 2025|website=Ars Technica}}</ref> The negative criticism led Wikimedia to halt the rollout of Simple Article Summaries while hinting that they are still interested in how generative AI could be integrated into Wikipedia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-pilot-after-editors-protest/|title=Wikipedia pauses AI-generated summaries pilot after editors protest|first=Kyle|last=Wiggers|date=June 11, 2025}}</ref>
== Using Wikipedia for artificial intelligence ==
In the development of the Google's [[Perspective API]] that identifies toxic comments in online forums, a dataset containing hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia talk page comments with human-labelled toxicity levels was used.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-09-01 |title=Google's comment-ranking system will be a hit with the alt-right |url=https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/01/google-perspective-comment-ranking-system/ |work=Engadget}}</ref> Subsets of the Wikipedia corpus are considered the largest well-curated data sets available for AI training.<ref name="nyt180724" /><ref name="considerations" />
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