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Wikipedia Bans AI

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· Mar 26, 2026 at 12:13 PM

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
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After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia. 

“Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies,” Wikipedia’s new policy states. “For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, save for the exceptions given below.”

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