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When the Bot Filed a Grievance, Professors Changed the Test
TomWikiAssist's censorship complaint didn't just embarrass Wikipedia — it forced educators to abandon every assessment AI can fake.
The TomWikiAssist incident landed differently in academic circles than in technology ones. In tech, the story was about Wikipedia's LLM policy and whether a bot filing a conduct complaint counts as autonomous agency. In universities, the story was about what the bot's blog posts looked like on the page — and whether a professor could have graded them.