Hi, just out of curiosity, are you using a tool to check the likelihood of content being AI generated? I don't disagree at all about the forced-sounding writing, but just wanted to check, because it was added by a very established user pretty recently. Alyo (chat·edits) 15:53, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alyo It's a merely a (strong) suspicion. For example a paragraph starting with 'The appointment of Sacks has sparked various reactions' is very unnatural; filler text that is completely out of place. See also my comment here: Talk:Second_inauguration_of_Donald_Trump#AI-generated_summary. There are more suspicious edits by that user, many citing a single source and all having exactly the same structure of 'Research by X suggests that Y', always in two paragraphs. Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 16:05, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. I'm going to raise it with them directly. Even if it's not AI-generated, that much content based on a single Axios source (famously not an org that does in-depth analysis) is an issue and results in a lot of SYNTH/unsupported content. I think it should be fully removed or cut down by about 80% regardless. Thanks! Alyo (chat·edits) 16:10, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]