Decade-long Conflicts Between Automated Wikipedia Edit-Bots

Over the past decade, automated edit-bots have been deployed on Wikipedia to maintain consistency and accuracy of content. However, these bots have inadvertently become competitors in a never-ending battle for editorial control. This conflict raises questions about responsible AI governance and the need for trustworthy AI models.

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MAP 1.2 — similarity 0.502, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 2.2 — similarity 0.496, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 1.3 — similarity 0.491, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/7

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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