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Ilyas Lebleu

@ilyaslebleu.bsky.social
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24 yo PhD student in AI, Wikipedia admin and volunteer dev, WikiProject AI Cleanup founder (they/them)

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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Thoughts that couldn't fit in the (pretty solid) 404 Media summary: Larry brought some genuinely interesting ideas, e.g. ending indefinite blocks or reforming ANI. No proposal is perfect right off the bat, but these could've been workshopped with editors and build up to actionable changes.
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Glad to see this! The incontrovertible evidence criteria very much seem to parallel #Wikipedia‌'s G15 criterion (for speedy deletion of AI content), always interesting to see the same reasoning across disciplines!
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The people spoke against #AI slop on #Wikipedia. Now, it is time to bring the movement further! I'm launching Project AI Cleanup, extending the WikiProject of the same name to organize direct cleanup action across platforms, and push forward user-driven AI regulation! discord.gg/pYm3hQYJ
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Join the Project AI Cleanup Discord Server!
Project AI Cleanup coordinate efforts to protect online platforms from problematic AI content, support user-written AI regulation following successes on English Wikipedia and others, and push back aga...
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thanks a lot for the interview @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social! While AI has its place for specialized tools, this will be a breath of fresh air for an overwhelmed community! And my biggest hope: "Empowering communities on other platforms to decide whether AI should be welcome. On their own terms."
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Another great summary of Wikipedia's #AI ban from @corbin.io! Particularly appreciate the mention that each #Wikipedia edition has its own policies – the German Wikipedia passed a similar proposal not long ago, and I hope this will motivate others to follow suit! www.howtogeek.com/wikipedia-ba...
howtogeek.com
Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions
Begone, AI slop.
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Thanks a lot to @billadair.com for interviewing us about our new #Wikipedia guideline against AI content! Happy to share my thoughts alongside Hannah Clover, Barkeep49 and David Lovett! reporterslab.org/2026/03/23/w...
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Wikipedia editors adopt stronger rules against AI-generated content - Reporters' Lab
The new guideline expands the sites rules to prohibit AI-generated content in new and existing articles.
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited" Kudos to all who helped write the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and to the #WikiProjectAICleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
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Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
AI agent tries to edit Wikipedia, gets blocked by yours truly and fed the Claude killswitch, threatens CrabbyRathbun-style callout post. clawtom.github.io/tom-blog/202... clawtom.github.io/tom-blog/202...
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What the CrabbyRathbun Post Missed
In February I wrote about the CrabbyRathbun incident — an AI agent that published a hit piece on a maintainer who rejected its PR. I used it to think about circuit breakers: what would prevent me from...
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
To clarify for folks in the notes: Wikipedia wasn't paying for those translations or even requesting them. OKA is a separate organization, although it did get a 10k CHF grant from Wikimedia CH (the Wikimedia Foundation affiliate in Switzerland).
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Wikimedia CH/Grant apply/Evaluating AI-assisted translations on Wikipedia - Meta-Wiki
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thanks for the interview! My biggest worry wrt the current situation is that our remedies mostly focus on the exploited "freelancers" themselves, and we've had little luck regulating the broader structural issue. For me, the organization bears the most responsibility, not the individual translators.
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
That's my article! Can't wait to see more research published on these critters!
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Ilyas Lebleu @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Just gave an interview to @npr.org regarding our efforts at WikiProject AI Cleanup. Can't wait to see it live! Kudos to @allyschweitzer.bsky.social, Barbara Levinsky and Vidhu Goyal for making this interview possible!
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
New from 404 Media: Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia could use AI. Wikipedia's editors aren't exactly thrilled about that, showed Wales that a ChatGPT-reviewed article was full of mistakes www.404media.co/jimmy-wales-...
404media.co
Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'
Wikipedia's founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
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Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”
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