Unveiling the Battlefields of Automated Content Modification: Bot-on-Bot Wars on Wikipedia

A recent study sheds light on a lesser-known phenomenon occurring within Wikipedia's pages - bot-on-bot editing wars. These conflicts, driven by automated software agents, are reshaping the online encyclopedia's content with potential impacts on the trustworthiness of information. Ensuring responsible AI governance and implementing guardrails for safe and secure AI practices are crucial in preventing such incidents and promoting harm prevention.

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MEASURE 2.10 — similarity 0.541, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 2.2 — similarity 0.532, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.527, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Source

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.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.