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Image Suggestions uses AI-generated images from Commons when adding images on English Wikipedia
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Open the Wikipedia app
  • Navigate to an article on English Wikipedia (enwiki)
  • Start the flow to add an image to the article
  • Observe the suggested images provided by the app

What happens?:
The app suggests images from Wikimedia Commons without filtering out AI-generated images.
A user reported that they added an AI-generated image based on the app’s suggestion, assuming it was appropriate since it appeared in other language versions of the article.

What should have happened instead?:
AI-generated images should not be suggested when adding images on English Wikipedia, or at least should be filtered out when possible, given that enwiki policy (WP:AIIMAGE) generally discourages their use.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Prevent the app from suggesting AI-generated images (based on Commons categorization or metadata) when users are adding images to articles on English Wikipedia.

Potential solutions

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ARamadan-WMF created this task.Apr 7 2026, 2:49 PM
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Seddon renamed this task from App suggests AI-generated images from Commons when adding images on English Wikipedia to Image Suggestions uses AI-generated images from Commons when adding images on English Wikipedia.Apr 7 2026, 2:53 PM
Seddon added projects: Growth-Team, Reader Experience Team, Data-Platform.
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Ahoelzl moved this task from Incoming (new tickets) to Needs Clarification on the Data-Engineering board.Apr 8 2026, 5:10 PM
Ahoelzl added subscribers: APizzata-WMF, mfossati, Ahoelzl.

@mfossati @APizzata-WMF can this be easily done in the image suggestion pipeline?

Michael subscribed.Mon, Apr 13, 9:36 AM
Michael moved this task from Inbox to Tracking on the Growth-Team board.EditedMon, Apr 13, 9:49 AM
Michael added projects: Image-Suggestions, GrowthExperiments-NewcomerTasks.

This is something that needs to happen in the pipeline. Moving it to tracking for Growth, because it also affects what images are presented in the Growth Add-an-Image newcomer task.

mfossati added a subscriber: Cparle.Mon, Apr 13, 11:46 AM

@Ahoelzl TL;DR: not easy.

Besides a tag that my former team introduced on Commons UploadWizard, I'm not aware of other methods to mark uploaded content as AI-generated:

Screenshot 2026-04-13 at 13.33.19.png (2×1 px, 408 KB)

From a technical perspective, we could add a filter in the pipeline.
IIRC those tags live in the wikitext of Commons File pages, so parsing becomes a requirement. Moreover, this would be a partial solution, since the presence of such a tag depends on the uploader's discretion. Untagged AI-generated content can still be uploaded.
This is also a language chapter-specific requirement, since the suggestion came from another Wikipedia, where the image was allowed.

Looping in @Cparle, as I might have outdated information on AI-generated content handling on Commons.

mfossati added a comment.Mon, Apr 13, 11:52 AM
In T422513#11813943, @mfossati wrote:

IIRC those tags live in the wikitext of Commons File pages, so parsing becomes a requirement

Specifically, the tag adds the PD-algorithm template.

KStoller-WMF subscribed.Mon, Apr 13, 5:57 PM
Cparle added a comment.Tue, Apr 14, 10:14 AM

Looping in @Cparle, as I might have outdated information on AI-generated content handling on Commons.

I don't know anything more than what you're posted above ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dbrant subscribed.Tue, Apr 14, 11:05 AM

fwiw the image mentioned in the task also has a structured-data claim of "instanceof : AI-generated image" (Q116177346). Although this was added manually, could it be part of the pipeline for selecting or filtering images?

A_smart_kitten subscribed.Wed, Apr 15, 1:32 PM
mfossati updated the task description. (Show Details)Fri, Apr 24, 10:47 AM
mfossati moved this task from Incoming/Inbox to Backlog on the Reader Growth Team board.Tue, May 5, 11:21 AM
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