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Well that is true. However, I used Phind and was able to get 10 paragraphs about New East Lake with sources! https://www.phind.com/search?cache=8ff1dcc7-7587-4df8-9e46-6...

At the same time, it uses Wikipedia as a source as well as marketing and blog sources so Phind results should be carefully critiqued as well.

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I got ChatGPT to hallucinate actual sources that I can readily copy-paste on wikipedia:

“Give me 3 citations about New East Lake, Michigan, that I can use on wikipedia, in mediawiki syntax. Use actual book names and URLs instead of examples.”

Note that this town doesn’t exist. But now I can pretend it does.

Note, I don’t want to do this of course. But it shows that you really need to check sources on wikipedia, especially nowadays, when it’s so easy to generate realistically looking nonsense.

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