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by hedgehog 455 days ago
This doesn't make much sense to me. Unattributed heresay has limited historical value, perhaps zero given that the view of the web most of the weights-available models have is Common Crawl which is itself available for preservation.
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I suspect the idea is that sometimes breadth wins out over accuracy. Even if it's unsuited as a primary source, this kind of lossy compression of many many documents might help a conscientious historian discover verifiable things through other routes.