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Wikipedia has well documented and explored issues related to vandalism, bias, and misinformation.

But don’t get me wrong, I also view ChatGPT conversations as being on par with pub chats as far as “confident facts” go.

I think our difference may be in how we view Wikipedia.




> Wikipedia has well documented and explored issues related to vandalism, bias, and misinformation.

Last I read about this, the error rate in Wikipedia was actually lower than in the Encyclopedia Britannica, by a measurable amount.

This was a while back, and admittedly it only counted articles where there was an equivalent article in both (which probably gives a better picture of Wikipedia, as those kinds of “boring” articles have less vandalism…) but it’s not immediately a given that Wikipedia is just objectively bad at being accurate.




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