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Wikipedia's largest non-English version was created by a bot. Generative AI poses new problems
A Swedish linguist designed a bot that almost entirely created a Cebuano-language Wikipedia of 6 million articles, but the Isjbot was eventually retired.
Lsjbot generates articles by taking information from online databases, mostly on biology and geography, and fitting the data into a set number of pre-written sentences. Tomas, a member of that community, says a small group of local Wikipedians has been trying to improve the quality of the Cebuano pages, including working with Johansson on lsjbot. Another reason Johansson retired lsjbot was that it wasn't achieving one of the aims he'd hoped it might: bringing a "critical mass" of readers and editors to Cebuano Wikipedia, catalysing a richer encyclopaedia.
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