#TheAICon gets worse
The #Guardian reports #ChatGPT & #Claude are citing #Grokipedia, the an #AI “encyclopedia” that copies #Wikipedia and adds cites from white supremacist sites like #Stormfront and promotes conspiracy theories.
[…] An OpenAI spokesperson said the model’s web search “aims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints”.
“We apply safety filters to reduce the risk of surfacing links associated with high-severity harms, and ChatGPT clearly shows which sources informed a response through citations,” they said, adding that they had ongoing programs to filter out low-credibility information and influence campaigns. Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal
That’s not a feature that’s information ecosystem contamination. Since LLMs amplify misinformation by design, they pattern-match and remix without understanding or accountability, there’s really no protection from this for the casual user of this systems.
[…] Regardless of why they are produced, synthetic or partially synthetic scientific papers damage the scholarly information ecosystem, mixing unreliable texts that no one can really vouch for in among those that, in theory, other scholars could be learning from and building on.
https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/115820713773172781