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600 AI Translations Are Adding 'Hallucinations' To Wikipedia Articles

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/06/2026 08:00 EDT

AI Translations Are Adding 'Hallucinations' To Wikipedia Articles

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI "hallucinations," or errors, to the resulting article. The new restrictions show how Wikipedia editors continue to fight the flood of generative AI across the internet from diminishing the reliability of the world's largest repositor

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