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The real problem lies in the fact that those non existing citations will become real. Several years back there was a case of an article in Wikipedia that made
by cowl 4y ago
The real problem lies in the fact that those non existing citations will become real.
Several years back there was a case of an article in Wikipedia that made some unsrourced claims->Journalist that doesn't do verification republishes those claims (without specifying wikipedia as srouce) -> Wikipedia article gets challanged for lack of citation -> the News story first based on wikipedia becomes the reference in the original Wikipedia article. Full circle
It's easy that something like this happens again. chatGPT confidently listes hallucinated sources->media rushes to publish the scoop -> now you have real "sources" for future reference
- alpos 4y agoSeems like there's a bug in that system, it was discovered on accident, and now there is a bot that exploits this flaw. The fix will most likely have something to do with requiring that citations use primary sources, not just any article on the internet. In then end state, Wikipedia will be much better for it.