• zzx@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Wikipedia is excessively fact checked. You can test this pretty simply by making a misinformation edit on a random page. You will get banned eventually

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      18 days ago

      eventually

      Sorry, not what i’m looking for in a medical infosource.

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        18 days ago

        Sorry, I should have clarified: they’d revert your change quickly, and your account would be banned after a few additional infractions. You think AI would be better?

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          18 days ago

          I think a medical journal or publication with integrity would be better.

          I think one of the private pay only medical databases would be better.

          I think a medical textbook would be better.

          Wikipedia is fine for doing a book report in high school, but it’s not a stable source of truth you should be trusting with lives. You put in a team of paid medical professionals curating it, we can talk.

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            18 days ago

            Well then we def agree. I still think Wikipedia > LLMs though. Human supervision and all that

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            17 days ago

            Sorry but have to disagree. Look at the talk page on a math or science Wikipedia article, the people who maintain those pages are deadly serious. Medical journals and scientific publications aren’t intended to be accessible to a wider public, they’re intended to be bases for research - primary sources. Wikipedia is a digest source.