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Re:Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on... by nomel on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:43PM (#36765093)
> There is bias about History depending on what country is telling the story.

A funny example of this is fan death [1]. Comparing English to southeast Asian languages show that Asian languages pages suggest that it's real (at least last few times I translated it).

An, in a bit of relevancy, the Japanese page has been overwritten with "I love you" and "I'm sorry".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

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Re:Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on... by mr_toad on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:46PM (#36766294)
Well that was bizarre. But if you have a government agency saying that electric fans can cause asphyxiation, and even that they have data to provide it, can you blame people in that country for believing it?
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