[COFF] [TUHS] Re: Wikipedia anecdotes - LLM generalizations [was On the unreliability of LLM-based search results (was: Listing of early Unix source code from the Computer History Museum)

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Paul Winalski

    > Wikipedia quite rightly wants citations for stated facts and this
    > practice goes a long way to prevent inaccuracies. But I recall one
    > instance where it actually caused the establishment of a factual error.

Not rare; this pattern was the subject of an XKCD strip, "Citogenesis":

  https://xkcd.com/978/
  https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/978:_Citogenesis

The latter URL has a very similar story to the one you gave.

	Noel