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This page is an excerpt from Wikipedia:Artificial intelligence § What is Wikipedia's AI policy?.[edit]

At the onset of the 2020s AI boom, Wikipedia's existing content policies already addressed many emerging AI-related concerns that would prompt other platforms and organizations to adopt a dedicated new policy; consequently, Wikipedia has no single "AI use policy", "AI-generated content policy", "AI content guideline", et cetera. Wikipedia:Large language models § Risks and relevant policies (essay) aims to explain how the broad core content policies and the copyrights policy interact with the use of AI tools, mostly in the domain of text. However, there exist disparate portions of policies and guidelines which are specifically and explicitly about AI-generated content, and they are listed here as follows (May 2025):

• Wikipedia:Image use policy § AI-generated images (WP:AIIMAGES), a policy section against the use of images wholly generated by AI
  • referred to in Wikipedia:No original research § Original images (WP:IMAGEOR)
• portion of Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons § Images (WP:AIIMGBLP), a policy norm against the use of AI-generated images to depict subjects of BLPs
• portion of Wikipedia:Public domain § Works ineligible for copyright protection (WP:NONCREATIVE), a guideline paragraph recounting the legal principle that works created by machines are not copyrightable (generally valid as of 2025)
• portion of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images § Editing images (MOS:AIUPSCALE), a MoS norm against the use of AI upscaling software
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources § Sources produced by machine learning (WP:RSML), a guideline section against citing AI-generated content as sources
  • referred to in Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources § Large language models (WP:RSPCHATGPT), an information page
• Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines § LLM-generated (WP:AITALK), a guideline entry allowing the striking or collapsing of comments that are obviously generated by an LLM or similar AI technology

The following are not policies or guidelines, but still have some significance in this context:

• an entry in Wikipedia:Drafts § Reasons to move an article to draftspace (WP:DRAFTREASON), an explanatory essay about policies on editing and deletion
• Help:Translation § Automatic translation (WP:MACHINE)—concerns neural machine translation (i.e., "AI translation")
• portion of Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks § Composing your request to be unblocked (WP:NICETRY), an explanatory essay stating that unblock requests that appear to be written using AI are likely to be summarily rejected