Editing Pikipedia:AI policy

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'''AI''' (or '''Artificial Intelligence''') is a broad concept, but the following policy exists for the scope of Generative AI and other such technologies. This includes concepts and tools such as, but not limited to:

* Large Language Models
** ChatGPT
** Deepseek
* Image generation
** DALL-E
** Stable Diffusion

== Use of AI on Pikipedia ==
The use of AI on Pikipedia by users is strictly '''forbidden'''. If a user uses any AI tool to generate text, images, or other sort of content with the intent of uploading it to the wiki, that is not allowed. Users may, within reason, feel free to use AI tools to help brainstorm simpler ways to phrase some concept's explanation, to help debug MediaWiki issues, etc., but the final result of the contribution ''must'' come exclusively from the user themselves.

There are two main reasons as to why AI cannot be used on the wiki:

* '''Copyright''':
** The usage of AI tools falls into a legal gray area, given how the majority of the tools were trained with data from across the globe without the authors' permissions. At worst, the output of such tools can lead to copyright violations, which could have ramifications for any contribution created using AI.
** In addition, entities such as the United States government [https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf do not consider Generative AI eligible for copyright]. This would make licensing an edit that is partially or fully generated by AI very difficult, if not outright impossible.
* '''Reliability''':
** AI tools do not "think" in the traditional sense. Anything output by an AI language tool is, at its base, a sequence of words where each one is randomly picked based on what word should most likely come next in the sentence. If an AI tool generates text to write on the wiki, it will generate the information by itself, likely "hallucinating" things in the process. This goes against what the wiki is for since the aim is to document what happens in the games, not what one comes up with in their minds (virtual or real).
** Generative AI is trained with data from the internet. For ''Pikmin'', that data comes primarily from sources such as Pikipedia (even [[#Uses of Pikipedia for AI|without consent]]). This means that anything the AI could say is already accounted for on the wiki, except for the aforementioned generated information it might invent.
** For images, their goal on the wiki is mostly help to portray something happening in the game. An AI tool can't play the game and take screenshots, and anything it does create is not real and carries no information, meaning that even a well-meaning contributor wouldn't find any place to put the image.

The usage of AI tools to enhance or upscale an image are also not allowed, considering they add information to the image that isn't a part of the real image.

Edits that are known to have come from AI sources will be reverted, and the user will likely receive a warning. Edits that come from AI agents themselves will end in a ban. Edits that are suspected of coming from an AI tool will be put under scrutiny, and may open a can of worms for both the staff team and the contributor who made the edit. Failure to comply or cooperate may result in a ban. 

== Use of Pikipedia for AI ==
The usage of text, imagery, and other content from the wiki for the purposes of training or feeding an AI model is strictly '''forbidden'''. This includes both private and public use. Considering that the contents of Pikipedia are licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International] license (CC BY-SA 4.0), there is currently no way for an AI model to use them without violating the license. The reasons are:

* Attribution: The authors and source of content on the wiki need to be attributed in a few ways as detailed in the license. Generative AI models do not attribute any sort of license to any of the content they consume, if they even retain the source to begin with.
* ShareAlike: Any reuse or modifications done to content from the wiki requires that the output be licensed under the same license. Content created by Generative AI models is not eligible for copyright in the first place, as explained previously, and also does not come with any license.

Pikipedia staff reserve the right to enforce the copyright of their work if improperly used elsewhere, such as through the [https://www.copyright.gov/dmca/ Digital Millennium Copyright Act].

== See also ==
* [[Pikipedia:Verifiability]]
* [[Pikipedia:Truth]]

== External links ==
* {{w|Wikipedia:Artificial intelligence|Artificial intelligence policy on Wikipedia}}

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