Small Wikipedia win over the weekend: found and fixed a 14-year-old instance of plagarism which subsequent edits had accidentally turned from just being plagiarism into misattributed plagarism.
For a cheap chuckle, I asked ChatGPT. The response mentioned an essay that is not relevant to the matter at issue, and then went on to hallucinate the author, year, and publisher, plus a wholly incorrect précis of what it is about.
The next decade or so is going to be epistemologically exhausting.
Tom Morris /
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2024-05-06 13:05:04
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