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So far the story with Wikipedia has always been that the number of contributors is declining, and I believe this will only get worse when fewer people read it (directly from the source). As much as I hate the idea, are people (in particular, Wikimedia) experimenting yet with using LLMs to contribute to/improve/check Wikipedia? Will page discussions and edit wars in the future get replaced with an arena of partially collaborating, partially competing LLM agents?

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The system is off. Contributor would write a new piece. Spammers would go in and remove legitimate articles it links to and replace with spam links. Wikipedia bots go through and purge the new contributions. Contributors stop caring.

Many things contributors are doing could be handled by AI agents.

We would just need a good system to a) keep humans in the loop and b) sort out bad actors.

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