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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)
submitted 5 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting numbers for people who dont wanna read :

  • on all the new contributors they taught, only ~5% were flagged by the AI detection tool.
  • on the AI flagged articles, only 7% presented sources that didn't even exist. Most of the AI outputed correct statements with existing sources.
  • however, north of 66% of AI articles failed verification : the citations or facts could not be found in the sources provided by AI
[โ€“] colonelp4nic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

thanks for the relevant excerpt! One small correction: most of the AI sentences had valid and relevant cited sources, but the statements were not correct.