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by stusmall 526 days ago
As others have already pointed out, feeding these new articles aren't magically going to make them any more accurate. These hallucinations are going to be on top of any errors in the data sources.

I'm not replying to point that out, I think others have done a better job. It's mostly that this conversation made me think of this classic Babbage quote that I've always enjoyed.

"On two occasions I have been asked, – 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"