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>People can reasonably expect Wikipedia to have factual data even though it sometimes contains inaccuracies.

It drives me crazy that my kids teachers go on and on about how inaccurate Wikipedia is, and that just anybody can update the articles. They want to teach the kids to go to the library and search books.

In a few years time they will be going on and on about how inaccurate ChatGippity is and that they should use Wikipedia.



the only people who think wikipedia is a legitmate source and can be used as reference material are lazy students. chatgippity is even worse on this point..an absolute black box. providing references like search does is a step in the right direction. We will have to see what those references turn out to be.


The best feature of Wikipedia is that it contains references. The second best feature is that it has no ads and loads quickly.

If all these "AI" companies gave a couple of million to support Wikipedia, they would do the world a lot more good.


> the only people who think wikipedia is a legitmate source and can be used as reference material are lazy students.

100%. Students who can do the work know the winning move is to use it as a way to find the sources you actually use.




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