Re:Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
by zirgs on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:59AM
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In many cases Wikipedia's source links are dead. And nobody bothers to update them. Or they cite some random book that I have no way to get and read myself.
Who checks if that book actually exists and is not made up? Especially if it's not a highly politically charged topic.
And then there are circular citations. Someone posts unverified/false info on wikipedia. Then it gets cited by some blog or other media that wikipedia considers trustworthy. And that then gets added to wikipedia as a reliable source.
Re:Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
by DiscourseFan on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:31PM
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Well at least on Wikipedia you can check those things.
Also ChatGPT is only knowledgeable about general things, but even there it makes errors. It's basically a very complex scraping algorithm, the more interesting part is the language generation; even then this stuff seems at least unethical if not illegal since it's using other people's work/research without citation.