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Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?
In response to the increased prevalence of generative artificial intelligence, some editors of the English Wikipedia have introduced measures to reduce its use within the encyclopedia. Using images generated from text-to-image models on articles is often discouraged, unless the context specifically relates to artificial intelligence. A hardline Luddaite approach has not been adopted by all Wikipedians and AI-generated images are used in some articles in non-AI contexts.
Paintings in medical articles
The image guidelines generally restrict the use of images that are solely for decorative purposes, as they do not contribute meaningful information or aid the reader in understanding the topic. Despite this restriction, it appears that paintings are permitted to be included in medical articles to display human-made artistic interpretations of medical themes. They offer historical and cultural perspectives related to medical topics.
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Venus with a Mirror, by Titian on Body image
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The Scream, by Edvard Munch on Anxiety disorder. This painting is regarded as a symbol of the anxiety of the human condition.
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The Imaginary Illness, by Honoré Daumier on Hypochondriasis
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Man with Delusions of Military Command, by Théodore Géricault on Delusional disorder
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Le Suicidé, by Édouard Manet on Suicide. This painting clearly depicts a suicide.
WikiProject AI Cleanup
WikiProject AI Cleanup searches for AI-generated images and evaluates their suitability for an article. If any images are deemed inappropriate, they may be removed to ensure that only relevant and suitable images are kept in articles.
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Removed from Spicy Fifty, due to a "distracting error" (probably the weird pepper that floats and seems to clip the glass).
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Removed from Shrinkage (accounting) as a real-life alternative could be used instead.
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Removed from Kemonā for being unnecessarily explicit.
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Removed from Pastoral science fiction for adding nothing and barely resembling a landscape.
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Removed from Darul Uloom Deoband for bad anatomy and risk of being mistaken for a contemporary work (the college was founded in 1866).
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Removed from The Moon is made of green cheese because a historical illustration was already used in the article.
Perhaps the removed "scientific" images are the worst ones, however, even if they only affected one article, Chemotactic drug-targeting:
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This is supposedly an amoeba moving; it looks more like a sperm cell, if anything. Amoeboid movement and a flagellum are fundamentally different movement techniques, and this looks much more like the latter. Prompt apparently was "an ameba moving toward a food source through the process of chemotaxis". Chemotaxis is movement in response to chemicals in the surrounding environment and needs a lot more creativity to illustrate.
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This image inaccurately shows a red tumour on a cell. Cancer cells don't get cancerous tumours on them, they form tumours in aggregate. This is probably based on a cross between a tumour and images of T lymphocytes attacking cancerous cells, but the combination created nonsense. The prompt was apparently a "cancer cell and its abnormal growth", but that's not meant to be growths on the cell itself.
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Supposedly leukocytes, but leukocytes aren't crystal orbs with vaguely red-blood cell shapes around and inside them. This one is more subtly wrong (it knows there should be something inside, and there's usually some red blood cells mixed in with them in photos...), which arguably makes it more insidious. This just isn't as blatantly bad, making it easier to mistake it as a real image.
It may also be worth considering what kind of AI art is being left in articles by the WikiProject:
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Advertisement for "Willy's Chocolate Experience", a disastrous event in Glasgow, Scotland that used AI for all its promotional material. Without cropping out the fake words. A pasadise of sweet teats, indeed!
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Succeeds in illustrating pastoral science fiction in a way that captures important ideas of sustainable structures.
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These somewhat deformed buildings are apparently typical of ways the meme/hoax country of Listenbourg was depicted using... well, AI images.
AI-generated images on Wikipedia articles in non-AI contexts
- Note: The following section is accurate as of the day before publication.
Policies vary between different language versions of Wikipedia. Differences in opinion among Wikipedians have resulted in the inclusion of text-to-image model-generated images on several Wikipedias, including the English Wikipedia. Many Wikipedias use Wikidata to automatically display images, which takes place beyond the scope of local projects.
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22nd century [ro] on the Romanian Wikipedia
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Anachronism [no] on the Norwegian Wikipedia
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Archimedes [ar] on the Arabic Wikipedia
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Arcturians (New Age) on the English Wikipedia
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Artificial planet on the English Wikipedia
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Battle of Dhu al-Qassah [fr] on the French Wikipedia
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Chuan Ralla [an] on the Aragonese Wikipedia
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Climate fiction [fr][uk] on the French and Ukrainian Wikipedias
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Colonization of Mars [fr] on the French Wikipedia
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Darul Uloom Deoband [ks] on the Kashmiri Wikipedia
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Global catastrophic risk [ha] on the Hausa Wikipedia
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The Great God Pan [he] on the Hebrew Wikipedia
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Gwyn ap Nudd [fr] on the French Wikipedia
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Invisible religion [cs] on the Czech Wikipedia
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John F. Kennedy [rw] on the Kinyarwanda Wikipedia
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LHS 1140 b [ru] on the Russian Wikipedia
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Pastoral science fiction on the English Wikipedia
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Preiddeu Annwfn [ru] on the Russian Wikipedia
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Raposa do aire [gl] on the Galician Wikipedia
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Religious delusion [nl] on the Dutch Wikipedia
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Rendlesham Forest incident [es] on the Spanish Wikipedia
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Science fantasy [eu][es] on the Basque and Spanish Wikipedias
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Silurian hypothesis [nl] on the Dutch Wikipedia
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Silurian hypothesis [fr][es] on the French and Spanish Wikipedias
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Space travel in science fiction, recently removed from the English Wikipedia
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Sundiata Keita [es], recently removed from the Spanish Wikipedia
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Technosignature [es] on the Spanish Wikipedia
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Twin paradox on the English Wikipedia
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A Voyage to Arcturus [he] on the Hebrew Wikipedia
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World Poetry Day [d] on many Wikipedias via Wikidata
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Xan Quinto [ca] on the Catalan Wikipedia
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