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Wikipedia is usually close enough and most users don't require perfection for their "facts"

Ive noticed things like gemini summaries on Google searches are also generally close enough.

Close enough only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades

And nuclear weapons. Don't forget the nuclear weapons.

And most human communication

Except when they glaringly get things wrong like "character X on show Y said catchphrase Z", and two queries produce two different values of X, one right, one wrong. The more I use gemini summaries for things I know a bit about, the worse my opinion of them..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Thanks for the Wikipedia link, do you have a source? /s

I know you are not serious, but what would constitute as an acceptable source?

I could paste its content into an LLM for rephrasing or summarizing or whatever, or just simply ask an LLM about it and put it on my personal website. Would that be an acceptable source?

What even is an acceptable source for such things?

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