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A comment on Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations. Parent comment

Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by layer8 on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:15AM (#44864329)
In the recent ChatGPT 5 launch presentation, ChatGPT 5 answered a question about how airplane wings produce uplift incorrectly, despite the corresponding Wikipedia page providing the correct explanation and pointing out ChatGPT’s explanation as a common misconception.

AI chatbots are only capable of outputting “vibe knowledge”.

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by briangriffinfan on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:27AM (#44864488)
What is this corresponding Wikipedia page?
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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by layer8 on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:43AM (#44864698)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#False_explanation...
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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by jddj on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:38AM (#44864631)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%27s_principle

Under the Misconceptions header

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Re:Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regu... by panzi on Monday August 11, 2025 @09:37PM (#44871394)
Yeah, but even so people use that nonsense, not checking if anything is correct. I suspect not enough people would notice that Wikipedia is inaccessible, sadly.
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