In other words, one increasingly gets the sense that it is the de facto takeover, with the accelerating trend of large language models like OpenAI's GPT, of AI-generated slop filling, ever more of the Internet, user-generated or not. Give a nod to Wikipedia editors: a job already so tedious that it consists of grubbing out bad human edits; now, a greater and greater proportion of their time spent trying to weed out AI filler.

404 Media speaks with Ilyas Lebleu, one of the editors involved in kickstarting the crowdsourced encyclopedia's "WikiProject AI Cleanup" initiative. They're working to develop best practices for detecting machine-generated contributions. And yes, before you ask, AI is useless for this.

A particular issue in this case is that AI-generated content is nearly always unsourced. The power of LLMs to generate immediately readable, plausible-sounding text has even led to entire fake entries being uploaded in an effort to sneak hoaxes past Wikipedia's human experts.