Should Wikiversity allow editors to post ChatGPT generated content?

This debate is phrased in terms of Wikiversity and ChatGPT, but can to some extent be generalized to other wiki projects and other "generative AI".

Items: greater ease of text production, copyright risk, reliability/accuracy, reduced learning by doing, overwhelming of proofcheckers by volume.

Wikiversity should allow editors to post ChatGPT generated content edit

Pro edit

  •   Argument for Using ChatGPT allows editors produce material that they would not be able to produce themselves or not so quickly.
  •   Argument for Editors should be able to post ChatGPT content under the provision that the output is clearly marked as originating from ChatGPT, and then, the reader can know to take into account an increased risk of mistakes.

Con edit

  •   Argument against The copyright status of ChatGPT output is not settled: there is an ongoing lawsuit. See Is the output of ChatGPT copyrighted?
  •   Argument against Unless the editor is subject matter expert, it will be often hard for the editor to detect mistakes, as pointed out by StackOverflow.[1]
  •   Argument against Expanding on the above, ChatGPT, having "read" much more material than most humans, seems especially adept at feigning competence that it actually lacks.
  •   Argument against An editor learns something by trying to research a topic and formulate text on it, even if the editor makes mistakes or the writing has inferior style. By contrast, by submitting a query to generative AI, the editor learns very little: there is no longer learning by doing.
  •   Argument against ChatGPT editors can insert vast amounts of material into a Wikiversity page, at a rate so fast that humans will be unable to properly evaluate the quality of the project.

References edit

  1. Temporary policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned, meta.stackoverflow.com

Further reading edit