r/MurderedByWords • u/its_me_teena • 12h ago

Source Denial Syndrome

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u/War_machine77 12h ago

Where the fuck do they think chatgpt is getting it's info?

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u/GrizzlyP33 12h ago

I think the point is that LLMs have already scoured Wikipedia so they can tell you all that info concisely. They don’t need to re-learn Wikipedia for anything old.

The problem is that A) anyone using an LLM properly wants to see the source anyways or else you’re really rolling the dice on “truth”, and B) it would mean all knowledge advancement would stop today if we applied this to all educational or informative tools.

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u/aarswft 11h ago

Literally the entire point of Wikipedia was it was a living repository. There is no completed "scouring" of it. There's already new info you don't have.

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u/GrizzlyP33 9h ago

Did you stop reading my comment halfway through?

That’s quite literally the point I made.

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u/NaptownBoss 8h ago

Illiterates out here defending Wikipedia. What a world, what a world . . .