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== Jībanmṛta and Esyms ==

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{{np2|Jībanmṛta}} made a large number of LLM-generated edits before they were [[WP:GLOCK|globally locked]] as a sockpuppet. Most of these edits fall within the [[WP:CT/SA|South Asia contentious topic]]. They had a tendency to add large volumes of densely referenced text in quick succession at a pace that would not be possible if researched and written manually, which was frequently followed by the addition of wikilinks in a separate edit afterward. Examples include:
* [[Terrorism in Bangladesh]]: 4 November 2025 ([[Special:Diff/1320438720|18:06]], [[Special:Diff/1320443905|18:41]], [[Special:Diff/1320446189|18:57]], [[Special:Diff/1320450351|19:24]], [[Special:Diff/1320451815|19:35]]); 5 November 2025 ([[Special:Diff/1320523140|05:43]], [[Special:Diff/1320525957|06:14]], [[Special:Diff/1320529202|06:51]], [[Special:Diff/1320529828|06:59]])
* [[Sindoor]]: 15 November 2025 ([[Special:Diff/1322335722|17:49]], [[Special:Diff/1322337233|17:58]], [[Special:Diff/1322339695|18:14]], [[Special:Diff/1322341149|18:23]], [[Special:Diff/1322341499|18:25]], [[Special:Diff/1322343553|18:38]])
* [[Ram Mandir Dhwajarohan]]: 28 November 2025 ([[Special:Diff/1324568715|09:54]], [[Special:Diff/1324569535|10:05]], [[Special:Diff/1324570459|10:17]], [[Special:Diff/1324571749|10:36]], [[Special:Diff/1324572217|10:43]], [[Special:Diff/1324575316|11:25]])
Jībanmṛta also [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/December 2025#Jībanmṛta (talk)|participated in the GOCE December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz]], in which they claimed to have copyedited articles that are thousands of words long in a matter of minutes. For example, in [[Special:Diff/1327817371]], they removed 4,054 characters from the [[Sichuan opera]] article 13 minutes after placing the {{t|GOCEinuse}} tag to indicate that they had started the copyediting process.
{{pb}}As a sockpuppet of a previously blocked and banned account ({{np|CosmLearner}}), Jībanmṛta's edits can be reversed without needing to provide any further justification per the [[WP:BE|block evasion]] ([[WP:BE]]) and [[WP:BRV|ban evasion]] ([[WP:BRV]]) policies, as long as at least one of the policies is cited in the edit summary. —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 13:11, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
: {{np2|Esyms}} has also been globally locked as a sockpuppet of {{np2|CosmLearner}}, the same account that Jībanmṛta is a sockpuppet of. The edit history of [[User:Esyms/sandbox]] shows Esyms [[Special:Diff/1331234664|starting with unsourced LLM-generated content]] and [[Special:Diff/1331237847/1331248737|adding citations to it afterward]]. —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 15:08, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
::I see that Esyms had been [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/January 2026#Esyms (talk)|participating in the GOCE January 2026 backlog elimination drive]] prior to being identified as a sockpuppet, and supposedly made [[Special:Diff/1331321872|this copyedit]] to the [[TV Brasília]] article in seven minutes. {{u|Dhtwiki}}, as the lead project coordinator of GOCE, is there any action you would like to take in response to this issue? —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 04:35, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:::After looking at a couple of Esyms's copy edited articles, it looks like they were doing good work for the most part. Their "TV Brasilia" edits, which you have reverted, were not all to my liking, but it seemed to be helpful work done in good faith. If you are required, without exception, to undo all of their work, I will probably have to spend some time rescuing much of it. [[User:Dhtwiki|Dhtwiki]] ([[User talk:Dhtwiki|talk]]) 09:48, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:::: Thank you for taking a look. {{np|Esyms}} is the 11th sockpuppet listed in [[:Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of CosmLearner]], so I will have to disagree with you on the presence of good faith. Personally, I don't think a sockpuppet who asked an AI chatbot to copyedit articles, and then pasted the contents of the output into Wikipedia, should be listed on [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/January 2026#Leaderboard|the leaderboard]], but that is a decision for the GOCE WikiProject and I am simply relaying the information to you. This particular incident is a dual cleanup case because it involves both LLMs and sockpuppetry: not all of Jībanmṛta's and Esyms's edits need to be reverted, but any edits that are not obvious improvements are likely to be reversed. —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 11:55, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:::::How can you tell that Esyms really did use AI to do their copy edits? The edits were both observant of MOS (placing dashes in date ranges) and then surprisingly unobservant (rewriting within a quote), but that could be true of purely human copy editing. Of course, Esyms is not going to receive barnstars, nor long remain on the January drive leaderboard. [[User:Dhtwiki|Dhtwiki]] ([[User talk:Dhtwiki|talk]]) 22:51, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
::::::In [[Special:Diff/1332237323]], Esyms created a user script with the comment {{xt|"Grok AI been used in most of the places"}}. In [[Special:Diff/1332238017|their next edit]] five minutes later, they made significant revisions to the script with the edit summary {{xt|"AI rewritten"}}. These two edits show that Esyms has access to an LLM ([[Grok (chatbot)|Grok]]) that would be capable of making the copyedits they submitted, and that Esyms has used this LLM to make edits on Wikipedia. The Jībanmṛta and Esyms accounts were operated by the same individual ({{np|CosmLearner}}), and as I mentioned in [[#c-Newslinger-20260114131100-Jībanmṛta_and_Esyms|my initial comment]] and [[#c-Newslinger-20260114150800-Newslinger-20260114131100|my second comment]], the timing and order of these accounts' edits to article content are indicative of LLM use.{{pb}}[[:Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of CosmLearner|CosmLearner's other sockpuppets]] also have a long history of LLM abuse in Wikipedia articles. For example, the most recent edits in [[Special:Contributions/B'Desh-In Outlook]] show the addition of tens of thousands of characters of article content within minutes, which is even more ridiculous considering that it was done with the mobile web interface. When we look at the comments that were actually written by the same individual without LLM use, such as [[Special:Diff/1260009187]], [[Special:Diff/1260433296]] (edit summary), and [[Special:Diff/1256582596]], we see a level of English proficiency that would be insufficient for copyediting articles on the English Wikipedia. I don't believe that Esyms/CosmLearner has the ability to perform the GOCE-related copyedits by hand.{{pb}}Thanks for confirming that Esyms won't receive recognition for the January drive. That was my main concern when I pinged you, because it's not my place to make this type of decision. I recognize that the [[TV Brasília]] article does need to be copyedited again, and that many of the changes in [[Special:Diff/1331321872]] were valid, so I will take some time to copyedit the article myself. —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 12:30, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
:::::::Thank you for the lengthy explanation and for seeing that a blanket rollback of Esyms's edits is unnecessary. [[User:Dhtwiki|Dhtwiki]] ([[User talk:Dhtwiki|talk]]) 05:54, 17 January 2026 (UTC)
::::::::I have checked the editor's 11 other articles, other than TV Brasilia, that Esyms copy edited for our drive and found very little that was wrong. If their work was done with an AI tool, it seems to be a very good tool for that kind of work. [[User:Dhtwiki|Dhtwiki]] ([[User talk:Dhtwiki|talk]]) 07:35, 24 January 2026 (UTC)