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I remember years ago seeing a study that diligently compared the factual accuracy of Britannica vs Wikipedia for a few select articles (will update this post w/link if I find it).
They found a similar rate of factual errors. The short of it: Wikipedia is chaotic and messy, but Britannica often had missing or out-of-date information. Wikipedia had higher noise, but also a higher correction rate. Factuality came out about a wash.
[UPDATE] I think it was this study: https://www.nature.com/articles/438900a
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Whitehouse propaganda minister Karoline Leavitt insisted,
“Everything I’m telling you is the truth backed by real, factual data,
and you just don’t want to report on it ’cause you want to push untrue narratives about the president.'”
The “real, factual data” that underpinned Leavitt’s statement was specious at best.
The actual inflation rate for September was 3%,
-- not the 2.5% figure cherry-picked from economic data.
The rise in real wages?
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Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984’
A historian analyzes how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claims about her boss and his administration are ‘doublespeak’ straight out of the pages of George Orwell’s ‘1984.’

An obsequious “always yes” machine…well, your head might say it’s far-fetched, but the instinct for psychological self-defense won’t let your brain let go of it.
You might say “Don’t they understand [fact about LLMs]???” but often the appeal isn’t factual; it’s emotional.
Ignore that at your peril.
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Stuut, which connects to CRM and other systems to automate management of accounts receivable, raised a $29.5M Series A led by a16z (Charlie Fink/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2025…

Stuut Raises $29.5 Million From Andreessen To To Fix Corporate Finance’s Most Thankless Job
Here are 170 characters, clean, neutral, and factual, no banned language: Stuut raises 28 million from Andreessen Horowitz to automate the tedious accounts receivable work that slows corporate cash flow, targeting overdue balances and manual tasks.

The objective, factual analysis by NYT makes it only more shocking.
#alexpretti #10shots #minneapolis #murder

10 Shots: Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minnesota
The Daily · Episode

Help me come up with "fun facts"!
The rule is that they have to be:
1. Factual
2. Of or about "fun"
And for bonus points:
3. Able to be customized to any given human in case some allistic person inevitably says "I meant fun facts ABOUT YOU"
I'll start: my favorite fun fact is that my brain produces endorphins when I'm having fun

Everything hinges on the subjective interpretation of condition #4: "Making an obvious action which CLEARLY IMPACTS ON THE ABILITY OF AN OPPONENT TO PLAY THE BALL"
Webb: "Only Donnarumma truly knows if he was impacted by this and we have to look at the factual evidence."
I'm screaming at Owen to ask, "if only he knows, what evidence do you see that he is clearly impacted?"
If none, the condition isn't met and thus the on-field decision …

Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-using-gemini-give-chatgpt-like-ans…

How Apple is Using Gemini to Give ChatGPT-Like Answers
In another AI win for Google lately, Apple announced on Monday that it will use Google’s Gemini models to power its artificial intelligence features, including an upcoming updated version of its Siri voice assistant.With Gemini powering its answers, Siri will have the ability to answer factual ...

Cool channel appearing on my youtube homepage.
this sucks.
#youtube

"Google said the vast majority of its AI Overviews were factual and helpful, and it continuously made quality improvements. The accuracy rate of AI Overviews was on a par with its other search features like featured snippets, which had existed for more than a decade, it added."
So Google admits that it's AI AND OTHER SOFTWARE PRODUCTS actually provide #misinformation. Mi…

"Google said the vast majority of its AI Overviews were factual and helpful, and it continuously made quality improvements. The accuracy rate of AI Overviews was on a par with its other search features like featured snippets, which had existed for more than a decade, it added."
So Google admits that it's AI AND OTHER SOFTWARE PRODUCTS actually provide #misinformation. Mi…