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Deep Dive: How Wikipedia’s Editors Keep the Online Encyclopedia Human-Written

Ran in the Late edition of LivePulse, Thursday, October 22, 2026
Original reporting: IEEE Spectrum AI · Eliza Strickland, 2026-10-21

Ellia Lebleu is a founding member of the WikiProject AI Cleanup, a volunteer effort launched in 2023 to find and remove AI-generated material from Wikipedia that breaks the website’s guidelines. When the cleanup began, AI writing was often betrayed by conspicuous clichés. Today, the project’s volunteers are developing tools to detect subtler forms of machine-generated content and debating AI’s role in the world’s most widely used encyclopedia.

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