Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Ohio cops who raided home

Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by lIl-IIIl on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:23PM (#47447884)

I agree and have the same reaction, but I also wonder how long before we accept "ChatGPT" source like we do Wikipedia.

For ChatGpt answers we reasonably expect to cite actual sources rather than "Source: ChatGPT".

For Wikipedia, most of us just stop at "Source: Wikipedia".

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by dghlsakjg on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:25PM (#47449673)

Wikipedia is easily viewed by anyone, and their sources are right there for further verification.

“Source: ChatGPT” frequently doesn’t include the link to the original chat, so is hard to verify that is the actual output, and we all have experience with ChatGPT wholesale making up facts when it is led towards the conclusion, or just inventing facts and sources.

I personally treat ChatGPT “facts” like “facts” from Reddit or Meta. There might be a grain of truth in it, but treating it like an actual source is a fool’s game.

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Re:Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Oh... by johnnyanmac on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @10:13AM (#47502911)

I'm not most people. You spend enough time in the "talk" section and you realize that Wikipedia is every bit as vulnerable to propaganda as Facebook or Twitter.

It's decent enough for high level technical explanation, but anything opinionistic needs to follow the source trails.

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