The source material is a guide from WikiProject AI Cleanup, a group of Wikipedia editors who have been hunting AI-generated articles since late 2023. French Wikipedia editor Ilyas Lebleu founded the ...

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 ‘Humanizer’ skill for Claude removes phrases and patterns based on a guide that Wikipedians use to spot AI-generated text.

Wikipedia, which turned 20 this month, is big. Really big. It’s read 8,000 times per second and visited more times per month than Netflix or Instagram. We’re so used to seeing it at the top of Google ...

Have you ever read an article or social post and thought, “This is terrible! I bet it was written by AI!”? Most people know bad AI writing when they see it. But unless you’re a closeted copy editor, ...

This year, we will be focussing on our professors. Your dissertation supervisor doesn’t have a Wikipedia entry yet? The article about your favourite professor could be improved? Would you like to ...

When she's not working in a physics lab, one London researcher is making sure women in science get the recognition they deserve. And she's doing it one Wikipedia article at a time. Jess Wade has ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. A new study finding that Irish High Court judges were influenced by the existence and specific language of ...