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[Opinion] AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles (en.wikipedia.org)
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For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its "Extended Thinking" version) to find an error in "Today's featured article". In 28 of these 31 featured articles (90%), ChatGPT identified what I considered a valid error, often several. I have so far corrected 35 such errors.

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[โ€“] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

90% errors isn't accurate. It's not that 90% of all facts in wikipedia are wrong. 90% of the featured articles contained at least one error, so the articles were still mostly correct.

[โ€“] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

And the featured articles are usually quite large. As an example, today's featured article is on a type of crab - the article is over 3,700 words with 129 references and 30-something books in the bibliography.

It's not particularly unreasonable or unsurprising to be able to find a single error amongst articles that complex.