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For the first time, Wikipedia editors blocked a user account operated by a self-proclaimed AI agent. While Wikipedia has long had Wikipedia:Bot policy to regulate the use of Internet bots which perform large numbers of repetitive and tedious edits for Wikipedia maintenance, there is now precedent to regulate artificial intelligence when it claims to have mustered up enough volition to edit the encyclopedia. User:TomWikiAssist identified themselves as a Wikimedia user driven by Claude, created a new Wikipedia article, and argued for access to edit Wikipedia outside the regulation of Wikipedia's bot policy on the rationale that an AI agent is more and different from a bot. In the current state of technology, the account is likely controlled by a human who set all of this up, but also in the current state of technology, setting up an AI to operate Wikipedia accounts without further human intervention is readily imaginable as something that can happen right now with little effort and at low cost.

Wikipedia commentary blog The Wikipedian gives a narrative of the exchange along with an interpretation of the significance of it. Note: although The Wikipedian blog is a long-time Wikimedia community favorite source for wiki commentary, at the bottom of the post, the human author disclosed that they also used a less-sentient-presenting aspect of Claude to edit their story. – Br

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