Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Local Council Elections. Should We Check Facts We Post on this website?
I'm no longer a member of any political party. I still regard elections and voting as important. And I've recently noticed that one member of this website posted a mistaken key fact about the May 2026 election. I consider that as citizens we should try to check and correct such facts if possible.
There are two - NOT THREE - Council seats available in some wards. Including St Ann's Ward.
From the Green Party website it appears that Cllr Paton is not standing as a candidate in May.
I regard it as a fact that The Greens rightly judge Climate Change is one of the major threats to our planet.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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Jamie, which parts do you claim are false?
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Permalink Reply by Jamie Harper
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Oh, don't rely on me, Clive.
Why not paste it into an llm and ask it? Then please try to find a way to blame Haringey Council for your confusion. That will give us all a sense of completion.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson
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I think you are giving platforms like these too much credence. I think I may have mentioned this elsewhere but a little experiment was carried out by a friend a few weeks ago. He edited the Wikipedia entry of a famous person and stated that a famous footballer was this celebrity’s godson. A few days later he googled both names and AI confidently stated their godmother/godson relationship, citing the Wikipedia entry as the source (the claim has of course now been deleted). If that can happen with a single false ‘fact’…
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Hmm, giving the inaccuracies I can only think this post was made to highlight what not to do in an ironic way.
The Grokipeida definition is completely wrong.
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Andrew, I am unfamiliar with Grokipedia which is why I asked Chat about it. As you have superior knowledge in this, could you—for the benefit of a wider audience if not for me—provide chapter and verse as to where in your opinion, ChatGPT's description of Grokipedia is wrong?
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Well it's entirely wrong. It's not a wiki about Grok, it's a knock-off of Wikipedia filtered through Grok. It's got millions of pages covering a whole variety of topics (many of which are AI slop).
I found it amusing that a post entitled Fact Checking on a thread about fact checking was so bereft of facts but a salutary lesson as to how easy it is for absolute garbage to propagate.
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If never heard of it so I Googled ‘Is Grokipedia accurate’. This is what came out.
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Maybe this explains why ChatGPT is wrong about Grokipedia?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-m...
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton
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John McMullan, have you tried using Grokipedia to check any facts about Haringey Green Party?
If so what useful stuff did you learn? Or are you just 'avin' a laff?
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