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it also parrots the myth that "AI just writes like that because it's trained on human writing," when those studies show the opposite: prior to 2022, human writing was not Like That, and so base LLMs, which solely reflect the training data, are also not Like That
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Word Overuse and Alignment in Large Language Models: The Influence of Learning from Human Feedback
PDF | Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to overuse certain terms like "delve" and "intricate." The exact reasons for these lexical choices,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
www.researchgate.net
January 21, 2026 at 4:59 PM
it also parrots the myth that "AI just writes like that because it's trained on human writing," when those studies show the opposite: prior to 2022, human writing was not Like That, and so base LLMs, which solely reflect the training data, are also not Like That
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
as someone who contributed to that page, not really concerned; most of the page is not new information, but collating stuff that was already publicized by linguistics researchers/automatic detectors, and the average wikipedia user is not going to use a plugin by a guy on X
January 21, 2026 at 4:55 PM
as someone who contributed to that page, not really concerned; most of the page is not new information, but collating stuff that was already publicized by linguistics researchers/automatic detectors, and the average wikipedia user is not going to use a plugin by a guy on X
less glibly, who is this thing even for? the average person wanting to "humanize" ai text is probably less concerned about being flagged by humans than by automatic detectors, which have their own heuristics.
which leaves a target audience of people who want to dunk on wikipedia on X. sounds right
which leaves a target audience of people who want to dunk on wikipedia on X. sounds right
January 21, 2026 at 3:28 PM
less glibly, who is this thing even for? the average person wanting to "humanize" ai text is probably less concerned about being flagged by humans than by automatic detectors, which have their own heuristics.
which leaves a target audience of people who want to dunk on wikipedia on X. sounds right
which leaves a target audience of people who want to dunk on wikipedia on X. sounds right
it seems to me if you are going to talk about "a world flooded with AI-generated text" it is rather disingenuous to do so by contributing more to the flood, but what do I know
January 18, 2026 at 2:30 AM
it seems to me if you are going to talk about "a world flooded with AI-generated text" it is rather disingenuous to do so by contributing more to the flood, but what do I know
you don't have to explain to me what it is, I am one of the main people working on it
January 15, 2026 at 10:52 PM
you don't have to explain to me what it is, I am one of the main people working on it
oh yes they are en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
Category:Articles containing suspected AI-generated texts - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
oh yes they are en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
if you want to know just how much it's embracing AI, here are almost 5,000 articles with AI writing in them, and that's just the ones we've found en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
Category:Articles containing suspected AI-generated texts - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
if you want to know just how much it's embracing AI, here are almost 5,000 articles with AI writing in them, and that's just the ones we've found en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
or for that matter, the fact that the wikimedia foundation is actually giving grants to people to add articles from Grok
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
January 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
or for that matter, the fact that the wikimedia foundation is actually giving grants to people to add articles from Grok
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
I don't know why no one ever mentions the large and until recently undetected surge of AI writing in Wikipedia articles, including core topics, as a threat
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
Category:Articles containing suspected AI-generated texts - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I don't know why no one ever mentions the large and until recently undetected surge of AI writing in Wikipedia articles, including core topics, as a threat
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
helped along by the Wikimedia Foundation awarding grants to people for doing mass Grok translations
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
January 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
helped along by the Wikimedia Foundation awarding grants to people for doing mass Grok translations
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
it gets worse!
the instructions for editors specifically tell translators to use Grok, including prompts and ways to bypass Grok's limits
for those keeping score at home, Grok is the LLM behind "MechaHitler" and more recently mass generation of CSAM
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
the instructions for editors specifically tell translators to use Grok, including prompts and ways to bypass Grok's limits
for those keeping score at home, Grok is the LLM behind "MechaHitler" and more recently mass generation of CSAM
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
January 10, 2026 at 9:23 PM
it gets worse!
the instructions for editors specifically tell translators to use Grok, including prompts and ways to bypass Grok's limits
for those keeping score at home, Grok is the LLM behind "MechaHitler" and more recently mass generation of CSAM
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
the instructions for editors specifically tell translators to use Grok, including prompts and ways to bypass Grok's limits
for those keeping score at home, Grok is the LLM behind "MechaHitler" and more recently mass generation of CSAM
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA/Ins...
worse yet the instructions actually say to translate with Grok specifically
January 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
worse yet the instructions actually say to translate with Grok specifically
people are being given grants to do it even meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA
OKA - Meta-Wiki
meta.wikimedia.org
January 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
people are being given grants to do it even meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKA
unfortunately it's more like 5-10 people working on it and we didn't even get an official guideline about AI until last November
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
unfortunately it's more like 5-10 people working on it and we didn't even get an official guideline about AI until last November
in practice things started appearing around... february 2023, march 2023? and really started popping off by mid-2023. stuff like talk to transformer existed around 2020 but were mostly viewed as a novelty or a toyg
January 5, 2026 at 4:51 AM
in practice things started appearing around... february 2023, march 2023? and really started popping off by mid-2023. stuff like talk to transformer existed around 2020 but were mostly viewed as a novelty or a toyg
wikimedia foundation is not only OK with this, but encouraging it meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed...
Wikimedia CH/Grant apply/Evaluating AI-assisted translations on Wikipedia - Meta-Wiki
meta.wikimedia.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 AM
wikimedia foundation is not only OK with this, but encouraging it meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed...
depressingly common occurrence on Wikipedia #4:
"Maybe I've used AI for this, but any writing that might have been AI..."
and maybe I had eggs for breakfast, and maybe any breakfast that might have been eggs wasn't sunny side up.
why is it so hard to say "I used AI" or "I didn't use AI"
"Maybe I've used AI for this, but any writing that might have been AI..."
and maybe I had eggs for breakfast, and maybe any breakfast that might have been eggs wasn't sunny side up.
why is it so hard to say "I used AI" or "I didn't use AI"
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
depressingly common occurrence on Wikipedia #4:
"Maybe I've used AI for this, but any writing that might have been AI..."
and maybe I had eggs for breakfast, and maybe any breakfast that might have been eggs wasn't sunny side up.
why is it so hard to say "I used AI" or "I didn't use AI"
"Maybe I've used AI for this, but any writing that might have been AI..."
and maybe I had eggs for breakfast, and maybe any breakfast that might have been eggs wasn't sunny side up.
why is it so hard to say "I used AI" or "I didn't use AI"
it's already happening
January 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
it's already happening