Post #1691506
2026-01-30 20:13 UTC
@shafik
Interesting!
“Our early interventions with participants who were flagged as using generative AI for exercises that would not enter mainspace seemed to head off their future use of generative AI. We supported 6,357 new editors in fall 2025, and only 217 of them (or 3%) had multiple AI alerts. Only 5% of the participants we supported had mainspace AI alerts. That means thousands of participants successfully edited Wikipedia without using generative AI to draft their content.”
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@shafik@hachyderm.io 2026-01-30 21:07
@stepheneb Yes, education definitely helps. There have been several reports that if people using LLMs in a way that makes their flaws obvious they learn and use them in more appropriate ways. If they can keep up, it should not be a big problem. Sounds like they have a hold of it.