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 Jamie Harper
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Even school children know to be wary of information provided by chatgpt and other llms. But not you Clive. You're on top of all this stuff. So confident, you regularly spam threads with screeds of nonsense pasted directly from the internet. I don't use grokipedia but even I know that what chatgpt has detailed is incorrect
What you have presented here is false. NOT fact.
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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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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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At the heart of the democracy in our country we have been able to watch at length and in real time, the public shaming of a shocking and successful public liar named Peter. Among those leading the shaming is the Prime Minister. Some of us may be hoping that Keir's lying has until now, only been to himself.
This is of course not a political Party issue. We're very familiar with prominent and public liars in every one of the main Parties.
Thankfully we also have many public women and men who speak and pursue, pursue truth.
They have urgent work to do. Work to heal the damage and sickness should have already begun.
~~I see no reason to think that Ai can or should be expected to contribute a major part in this work. It seems more than likely to enable a rise in the tide of hidden lies.
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