WikiEdu is an independent nonprofit that coordinates a lot of programs where college professors assign Wikipedia editing to students, and they recognized that a lot of students were attempting to add AI-generated text to articles. The organization has done a lot of work over the past couple years to train students on using AI constructively (such as to help with finding sources, not to generate article content), detect potential AI-generated contributions from students, and coach students toward doing the right thing.
If it were that easy to recruit new dedicated volunteers who would contribute a non-trivial amount of constructive work and stick with it over time, I'd be delighted and relieved, but it's not. Contributing to Wikipedia, at the level of many of the contributors who signed the petition, requires a lot of patience, enthusiasm, and time, and it requires building quite a lot of specialized skill. If you're doing it right, you get really quite good at a certain kind of research, writing, and reasoning. I've been an editor for 25 years, with 12k edits, and have not yet written an article that qualifies as a "featured article" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles) - it's super tough!
There are a bunch of research papers that compare Wikipedia and Grokipedia in some depth, and they've found and interpreted a lot of interesting differences. A couple of recaps from the Wikipedia Signpost, which is the internal newsletter for Wikipedians:
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