Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?

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Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?

Ned Ludd, if he even existed, has been claimed to be various things by various people: a folk hero, a disgruntled vandal, a progenitor of the modern labor movement, and some random moron. Even the machine-bashing methods employed by those claiming to act in his name — the Luddites — have remained an item of contention. From the early 19th century to the present day, people have argued about whether they accomplished anything useful, or whether they were counterproductive and reactionary.

Either way, they were inextricably tied to the material conditions of the time, and one cannot speak of Luddites without speaking of the industrial economy of their time: namely, one that gave rise to people who suddenly decided that becoming Luddites was a good idea. So, too, is there a debate about whether we ought to bash the machines in our own century. Some say yes, and some say no. Some say something more nuanced than that, but it's hard to hear above the crowd.

Indeed, on the English Wikipedia itself, some editors have taken a very dim view of the output of these last couple of years' increasingly prevalent text-to-image models (typically diffusion models), and sought to reduce their use on the project. Using "AI-generated" images on articles is often discouraged, unless the context specifically relates to neural networks. A hardline "Luddaite approach" has not been adopted by all Wikipedians, however, and model-generated images can be found across the project, sometimes in articles not directly related to machine learning.

Paintings in medical articles

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The image guidelines generally restrict the use of images that are solely for decorative purposes, averring that they do not contribute meaningful information or aid the reader in understanding the topic (i.e. they are "WP:DECORATIVE"). Despite this restriction, it appears that paintings are permitted to be included in some medical articles, displaying human-made artistic interpretations of medical conditions and phenomena. They may not illustrate the subject matter in perfect fidelity, but they offer historical and cultural perspectives germane to the topics.

The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli on Sleep paralysis
At Eternity's Gate by Vincent van Gogh on Major depressive disorder
Painting by Théodore Géricault on Delusional disorder
Narcissus by Caravaggio on Narcissistic personality disorder
Venus with a Mirror (1555) by Titian on Body image
The Imaginary Illness by Honoré Daumier on Hypochondriasis
The Sick Girl by Michael Peter Ancher on Disease

WikiProject AI Cleanup

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WikiProject AI Cleanup searches for AI-generated images and evaluates their suitability for the articles they appear in. If they deem any to have been used inappropriately, they may remove them!

Removed from Spicy Fifty
This is supposedly an amoeba moving; it looks more like a sperm cell, if anything. Removed from Chemotactic drug-targeting
Supposedly leukocytes, but leukocytes aren't crystal orbs with vaguely red-blood cell shapes around and inside them. Removed from Chemotactic drug-targeting
Removed from Pastoral science fiction
Removed from Darul Uloom Deoband
This image inaccurately shows a red tumour on a cell, which does not reflect cancer cell behaviour or immune cell interactions. It was removed from Chemotactic drug-targeting.