[COFF] [TUHS] Wikipedia anecdotes - LLM generalizations [was On the unreliability of LLM-based search results

Adam Thornton athornton at gmail.com
Sat May 31 15:11:44 AEST 2025


One could make a really good case right about now that:

a) Vladimir Putin is doing his best to put the band back together, and
b) Republicans are acting as extremely willing Russian assets, so therefore
c) Associating them with the red of Soviet Communism is pretty accurate.

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM Chet Ramey via COFF <coff at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On 5/29/25 10:23 AM, Paul Winalski wrote:
>
> > Somehow this color scheme got switched around  in the current liberal
> vs.
> > conservative ideological divide.  Red is now the color of the right wing
> > and Blue is the color of the left wing.  I don't know why that change
> happened.
>
> Gradual media conversion on those colors, finally cementing after CNN
> ran a map after the 2000 election that had Republican states in red.
>
>
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