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Counterpoint: Paul Newman was absolutely a famous drunk, as evidenced by this Wikipedia page.* Any query for "paul newman alcohol" online will return dozens of reputable sources on the topic. Your post is easily interpretable as handwaving apologetics, and it gives big "Its the children who are wrong" energy.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_Day




"Paul Newman alcohol" is just showing you results where those words are all present, it's not really implying how widely known it is.


What are you, an LLM? Look at the results of the first twenty hits and come back, then tell me that they don't speak to that specific issue.


Widely reported does not imply widely known.


How else does an LLM distinguish what is widely known, given there are no statistics collected on the general populations awareness of any given celebrities vices? Robo-apologetics in full force here.




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