I propose that if a contributor comes across suspected AI created content and an online check confirms that suspicion that the article be tagged {{speedy|AI}}. This would necessitate revising the “speedy deletion policy” and providing the community with accurate AI content testers such as this one
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What say ya’ll?
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Although I appreciate the idea, I don’t think there’s a need to speedy delete an article that we suspect contains AI-created content. Articles that aren’t promoted are not seen or indexed by search engines, and there’s generally nothing in the content that we need to ensure is deleted quickly for logged-in peeps.
Additionally, even detectors don’t get it right 100% of the time, so I think it’s best to have some dialog with authors, especially if there’s good intent!
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Good points! I was not actually advocating speedy deletion, but looking to get trusted and experienced eyes on the article before significant community resources are expended on AI content. Perhaps a template that would flag the article and coach the creator would suffice.
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Thanks for bringing up this food for thought, Ron. Ever since the AI policy was created early last year, I have personally spend a fair amount of time thinking about what could the best way to handle these articles - including creating a mockup of what an article template might look like and figuring out a workflow similar to the way we used to handle copyvios (i.e. tag, notify, manual delete after >7 days).
Now, I abandoned that idea in favour of a much simpler action: demote and leave it in quality review. Occasionally I’ll go back and manually delete if it’s been outstanding and the author is inactive and I happen to remember it, but most of the time I just let it stay in quality review indefinitely.
In the face of unwanted content, sometimes we forget about the fact that new articles aren’t indexed as Jayne mentioned. Realistically, there isn’t any sense of urgency to get rid of these right away if they’re not even visible to readers in the first place. So I think the easiest thing to do is just demote. Out of sight, out of mind
I’m also using Jayne’s boilerplate message to notify/coach authors, so if we were looking to propose something new… do we wanna turn this into an official coaching template? Hi there, I just wanted to let you know that we don’t allow AI-written content on wikiHow, so we will likely need to delete the article you started. Please let me know if you think there’s been a mistake.
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Thank you for the careful consideration of this issue, Matt. It seems like a template would be a valuable resource for the volunteer community. Additionally, if articles that have been identified as potentially being AI generated were tagged, there would be less chance of AI content “going live.”
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