From the article:
“A total of 178 out of the 3,078 articles came back as flagged for AI … About half of our staff spent a month during summer 2025 painstakingly reviewing the text from these 178 articles…
Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source.”
Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 day ago
Interesting numbers for people who dont wanna read : - on all the new contributors they taught, only ~5% were flagged by the AI detection tool. - on the AI flagged articles, only 7% presented sources that didn’t even exist. Most of the AI outputed correct statements with existing sources. - however, north of 66% of AI articles failed verification : the citations or facts could not be found in the sources provided by AI
colonelp4nic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
thanks for the relevant excerpt! One small correction: most of the AI sentences had valid and relevant cited sources, but the statements were not correct.