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Jimmy Wales

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And so I'm like, well, that's really not good.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Like I wanted to explore a thought process I was in.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I thought, first I thought, how do I Google?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And it's like, well, it's kind of a hard thing to Google because unless somebody has written about this specific topic, it's, you know, it's a large language model.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

It's processed all this data.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

It can probably piece that together for me, but it just can't yet.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

So I think, I hope that,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

chat GPT-5, 6, 7, you know, 3 to 5 years, I'm hoping we'll see a much higher, you know, level of accuracy where when you ask a question like that, I think instead of being quite so

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

eager to please by giving you a plausible sounding answer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

It's just like, don't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Well, it's one of the things I've said for a long time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

So in Wikipedia, one of the great things we do may not be great for our reputation, except in a deeper sense for the long term, I think it is.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

But, you know, we'll all be a notice that says,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

the neutrality of this section has been disputed or the following section doesn't cite any sources.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And I always joke, you know, sometimes I wish the New York Times would run a banner saying the neutrality of this has been disputed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

They could give us, we had a big fight in the newsroom as to whether to run this or not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

But we thought it's important enough to bring it to you, but just be aware that not all the journalists are on board with it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Ah, that's actually interesting, and that's fine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I would trust them more for that level of transparency.