I decided to lookup some history of my local area, and i was reading a whole page until i noticed some things didnt add up. It was stating some obscure things such as it (the local place) has it's own currency and whatnot.

I decided to check the sources they used, and i noticed it was some stupid wiki page made by Grok.

Sure i can't fact chek all of it, small point's were correct but for crying out loud. Please.

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Definitely add a comment saying it's an unacceptable source, if there's a comment feature. It might even be the case that they had real sources and then an Elon fanatic gutted it out to grokify the page.


Information about my own local area's history is like... gappy, or when not gappy, very inaccessible? They have a dedicated city history archive in the city library but don't upload any of it to a digital location. We're left with fan historical sites, which are relying on very non-juicy sources to paint the picture of our local neighbourhoods.

So though I know this is pre-LLM documentation, it is a really crappy qnd fake sounding narrative full of people's speculation with very little sourcing.

It's stuff like that which actually got me to care about and understand the historical method, more so than learning about it in high school.

Oh and when I say neighbourhoods I mean places that were villages before being assumed into the greater city, not just suburbs laid down in the last 230 years or so.

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