Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Silksam bot

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Silksam bot

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Operator: Silksam (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 09:22, Thursday, November 28, 2024 (UTC)

Function overview: The bot assesses articles with tags at the top of them, and uses GPT-4 to make recommendations on how to remove the tag. Should it get a thumbs up it will go ahead, make the necessary changes and remove the tag.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Not yet, still in development though.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Runs at 08:00hrs EST

Estimated number of pages affected: Parses through 5 articles a day

Namespace(s): Mainspace, Categories

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):Yes

Function details: Articles with tags on them will be put in a list, the bot will randomly pick 5 articles using the random function in python. Within the 5 articles, the bot will use GPT-4 via the OpenAI python library to go through the articles and make recommendations on the changes to make to articles and send it to my talk page. Should the recommendations meet the required standard I will give it the go ahead and make the changes. I will not be the only one to check it, should any other user like to give input to the bot it is also permitted.

Discussion

Denied. Wikipedia:Not ready to be a bot operator. The English Wikipedia community expects bot operators to have been around long enough to know our policies and guidelines and norms, for example the general skepticism towards LLMs currently in the community. If you want to run a bot here, you should spend some time as a normal editor to gain experience, and pay attention to existing discussions around use of LLMs. Anomie⚔ 12:49, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

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