Sprocket the DragonSomething seems off about this article on piracy at sea 
mhoye@SprocketTheDragon The idea that Piracy in the Caribbean involved pirated copies of Pirates Of The Carribean has some of the most powerful Citation Needed Energy I've seen in some time.
BҽҽɾNυƚ𝔃Seems like a ChatGPT generated issue.
Outeast
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@beernutz @mhoye @SprocketTheDragon luckily, chatGPT also has a suggestion for what it might expand to:
Doubloons, Vessels, and Diamonds. (Although I'm unsure if diamonds were as big of a deal at the time as they currently are.)
guenther@SprocketTheDragon even if it's fake, i hope we can one day stop glorifying wikipedia vandalism
kjaerulv@SprocketTheDragon correct if its wrong?/nature of wiki
Jim the U+1F9A6 (Otter)@SprocketTheDragon DVDs have been around since 1997. That's like forever ago.
Electronic Eel@SprocketTheDragon still online right now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Piracy#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Piracy#History
Big Worker@SprocketTheDragon is chat gpt writing these?
BoredomFestival@SprocketTheDragon You Wouldn't Download A Chest Of Doubloons
George Mitchell@SprocketTheDragon Finally, an article that mentions these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOYhF8jgeO0
Amazon Women on the Moon - Video Pirates
Joris (dwz)
64bitwizard@SprocketTheDragon didn't Wikipedia go ham on the LLM a little while back and now a lot of their articles are like this?
Tim@SprocketTheDragon was the editor Cunk? If Belgian techno-pop features at all, I don't even need to see the edit history.
@SprocketTheDragon beware, kids! You start by sinking ships and looting cities, and you might end up selling pirated dvds!
Ursula Katherine Spiller@SprocketTheDragon LMAO! Oh, that is beautiful 🤣
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦@SprocketTheDragon I wonder how long it'll be before #Wikipedia inserts #ChatGPT as a prefilter to all edits...
Matt Hodgkinson@nafnlaus @SprocketTheDragon There already is a trained bot that reverts a lot of vandalism, called ClueBot.
The Alaskan HepcatIt's probably that London (city) is doubly land-locked?
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@SprocketTheDragon Definitely another "citation needed" required there I think!
Cindi Knox [not parody]
Possum Willy
Silversalty@SprocketTheDragon
Sometimes my head too gets spun around by the time period jumps in many movies.
But as for stretching metaphores there's little that can match Jack Valenti and his ..
“The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.”
Grandpa Don@SprocketTheDragon
dvd was the acronym for "down very deep" where pirates stashed their booty
dvd was the acronym for "down very deep" where pirates stashed their booty
The Old Reading Room
Chris Cutler
AlskicavPirate DVDs on Captain Hooky Street? C'est magnifique
"No income tax, No VAT
Bradley & Jen Region Free
HD widescreen, 5.1
Buy it now before it's gone"
Long John "Silver Linings Playbook"
(With apologies to John Sullivan)
Cogito Ergo Disputo@SprocketTheDragon I can almost put a finger on it....
JL Roberson@SprocketTheDragon William Hogarth was noted for his fight against bootleg DVDs of RAKE'S PROGRESS
Artair Geal 
@SprocketTheDragon Yo-ho-ho and a DVD by James Gunn!
Óscar Morales Vivó@SprocketTheDragon it all started with the invention of the CD-ARRRRR
Kevin RussellVandalism is still a wikipedia thing?
I thought that was boomer thing.
In Search of a Better World@SprocketTheDragon Nah, checks out.
Michael Allison@SprocketTheDragon yeah. They were selling blu rays
Andy Hollandbeck@SprocketTheDragon Oh. Ouch. The laugh hit me so hard and sudden that it turned into a cough.
Elizaaaarghhhh 
@SprocketTheDragon
I hope the dvd players were waterproof
I hope the dvd players were waterproof
CJ the Awkward Lefty@SprocketTheDragon "you wouldn't steal the cargo of a galleon . . ."
KayDub@SprocketTheDragon So THAT'S the origin of "bootleg DVD's"! It all makes sense now.
Chip_Unicorn@SprocketTheDragon (Serious) It's missing that many pirates of the time were Africans taken for slavery.
Colin Fry@SprocketTheDragon @donmelton Argh! That’s been Jolly Rogered :)
Frank Inserra
Garry ☑️
Enema Cowboy@SprocketTheDragon It mentions nothing about how pirates prevented global warming.
Jan HelebrantI had never seen any of the printed #Sandman comics by @neilhimself but I like the TV series. It touches on some sensitive topics for me - first is that there is no reason to fear the Death, second - wish there was always someone like Morpheus to do the same as for Rachel.
And last - 'Dreams Don't F-king Die' is going to by my life motto - I always said that I can do anything in my dreams and no one will steal my dreams.
Dancingfool4bts
Jon Sullivan@SprocketTheDragon Hah! Funny. I checked and that's been fixed on #Wikipedia (the joke was added by whoever is at 51.219.68.78).
with pirated DVDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golden_Age_of_Piracy&oldid=1148284768
current: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Piracy
Your screenshot is from their first attempt on 4 April, "which drove people to piracy selling bootleg DVDs". When that change was fixed by another Wikipedia user, they then added "drove people to sell bootleg DVDs, music CDs and other forms of piracy." Which was also then fixed.
A. G. Robertson@SprocketTheDragon Seems accurate.😂
Frozen Leo ❄️🇺🇦@SprocketTheDragon
Do you know what your teen is selling in Leicester square?
DVD = Dinghy Vending Dubloons
CD = Captain's Deck
VHS = Vertex, Heave Starboard
DVD-RW = Dinghy Vending Dubloons, Arr Wench
BluRay = Bluebeard Rules All Yardarms
Do you know what your teen is selling in Leicester square?
DVD = Dinghy Vending Dubloons
CD = Captain's Deck
VHS = Vertex, Heave Starboard
DVD-RW = Dinghy Vending Dubloons, Arr Wench
BluRay = Bluebeard Rules All Yardarms
Kee Hinckley@SprocketTheDragon @neilhimself When someone fixes that they might also remove the obvious western bias. Japan had pirates in the 1200’s, and I’m sure there have been pirates as long as there has been shipping.
Peter Kahn🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈@SprocketTheDragon @geekylou walk the plank, burn the disc. It’s all the same
Frida@SprocketTheDragon Did ChatGPT write this
Abi Nunes-Richards@SprocketTheDragon
Indeed, surely many of the Spanish pirates would be Spanish....
Indeed, surely many of the Spanish pirates would be Spanish....
Andrew Ober-Reynolds@SprocketTheDragon What era is this in?