Have you ever read an article or social post and thought, “This is terrible! I bet it was written by AI!”? Now, Wikipedia’s editor team has just released what amounts to a master class in the clichés, ...
A decade ago professors complained of a growing “epidemic” in education: Wikipedia. Students were citing it in papers, while educators largely laughed it off as inaccurate and saw their students as ...
We’ve all felt the creeping suspicion that something we’re reading was written by a large language model — but it’s remarkably difficult to pin down. For a few months last year, everyone became ...
A ramification of the AI "revolution" that I hadn't even considered before now is what it must be doing to Wikipedia. As the broadest and most accessible repository of human knowledge on the planet, I ...
Several years ago I started asking students in my composition classes to compose entries for Wikipedia. Most of my students were familiar with Wikipedia as the most popular link at the top of a Web ...
Most people know bad AI writing when they see it. But unless you’re a closeted copy editor, it’s surprisingly hard to put your finger on exactly why AI writing sucks. Now, Wikipedia’s editor team has ...