Blooncyclopedia:Generative AI

The Anti-Bloon is better for popping Bloons than writing strategy sections.

To preserve the integrity of Blooncyclopedia's writing standards and file standards, we generally do not allow AI-generated or AI-assisted content. This is because text generated by LLMs is often strangely written, outdated, and sometimes straight-up incorrect, and AI-generated images have no place on a wiki that focuses on assets and screenshots that are minimally edited and as accurate to the source material as possible.

Most LLMs are trained on content that is not released under a compatible license, leaving the copyright status of AI-generated content unclear. For example, asking an LLM to explain the mechanics of an upgrade in BTD6 will likely result in text derived from content scraped from the Bloons Wiki on Fandom, which is incompatible with this wiki's license. Thus, LLM-generated text is considered plagiarism for the purposes of this wiki unless it was generated by a model that was trained exclusively on content available under a compatible license.

Note that these guidelines do not apply to documenting the rare cases where AI-generated content appears in official Bloons media.

AI-generated content in content articles

On the whole, you are not allowed to add AI-generated and AI-assisted content to any pages. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Text generated by an LLM
• AI-generated or upscaled images
• Machine translation of text not available in English (such as the Chinese version of Bloons TD 6)

Using AI in discussion of the wiki itself, on talk pages and forums, is also forbidden. Copyright issues aside, generating responses to other people's arguments with ChatGPT is always a bad look. Even if English is not your first language, explaining your perspective in your own words always comes across as more sincere than having an AI do it for you.

Acceptable uses of AI

While you may use AI as the basis for the following, please review the content, correct any errors, and make sure it matches the formatting of the rest of the page before adding it to the wiki.

• Formatting content into wikitext, such as tables and galleries
• Checking for spelling or grammatical errors
• Lua code

Identifying AI-generated text

In general, do not assume something is AI-generated just because it is written strangely. Always ask others for their opinion before removing any text that you think is AI-generated. Common signs of text generated by ChatGPT include an overuse of em dashes, the sentence structure "It's not just X, but Y", and paragraphs consisting of an introduction, a list of bullet points, followed by a conclusion that restates what was just said in those bullet points. See Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing for a field guide on this.