AI writing faces restrictions under new Wikipedia rules

Business AI writing faces restrictions under new Wikipedia rules 6 April 2026 By Cathy Resurreccion Homepage > News > Business > AI writing faces restrictions under new Wikipedia rules Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Wikipedia has published a new policy prohibiting editors from using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate or rewrite article content. Wikipedia—the popular free online encyclopedia—is restricting the use of AI on its platform, following its recent policy banning large language models (LLMs) from writing or rewriting articles. “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, etc. often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content policies,” Wikipedia’s policy reads. Despite the new rules, the digital encyclopedia cited two exemptions for copywriting and translation. The policy still allows the use of AI tools, with caution, to suggest basic copy edits to the editors’ own writing, provided the LLM adds new information. In addition, the use of LLMs to translate articles is still allowed, but editors must first follow their guidelines. “Editors are permitted to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, and to incorporate some of them after human review, provided the LLM does not introduce content of its own,” it said. “Editors are permitted to use LLMs to translate articles from another language’s Wikipedia into the English Wikipedia, but must follow the guidance laid out at Wikipedia:LLM-assisted tra...