One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI

Nearly 5 per cent of new Wikipedia pages that are published in English seem to contain text generated by artificial intelligence, which could reduce the site’s reliability.

Creston Brooks at Princeton University and his colleagues were wondering about the implications of recently rolled-out AI systems called large language models and how these may affect sources of information.

To learn more, they first ran the AI detection tools…