84 more sitting in the draft queue at the moment. Goodness knows how many quietly deleted. Really not wild about this...
@generalising so, uh Andrew, there's something we need to tell you 😉
@generalising I hadn't thought of this but am sure others have...
It's more than "neutral pov". Because Wikipedia is such a massive trove of well-written open source text, it's heavily referenced in the training of a lot of these models. So... it's going to sound like AI, because *it's in the AI*.
I hadn't thought about this specifically creating a problem re detecting AI-generated submissions to Wikipedia with current token-detection methods, but it makes perfect sense that it would. ...ugh.
@generalising ... content generated by AIs that were trained on "human-written in neutral style" texts ...
Looking into it a bit more, the first user also "heavily expanded" a couple of dozen mainspace articles. Is any of this true? Who knows!
It is rather telling that anything about a place sounds like it was written by a tourist site or an estate agent, though.