Wikipedia Officially Bans AI-Generated Article Content — 44-2 Vote, Two Narrow Exceptions for Copyediting and Translation

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English Wikipedia passed a Request for Comment (44-2 vote, closed March 20) banning the use of LLMs for generating or rewriting article content. The policy cites compounding risk: hallucinated text enters the encyclopedia, gets scraped into training data, and re-enters future models. Two exceptions survive: AI-assisted copyediting of one's own writing and first-pass translation, both requiring human accuracy verification. The Verge, TechCrunch, 404 Media, and Engadget all covered it independently.