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  • them_apples
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    The inaccuracies when it comes to sourcing

    Here is a new problem:

    If you notice, the GPT-5 engine has replaced googles basic key word algo searching. It's reviewing the same info as before, only a much smarter browser. What this shows is how wrong and inaccurate google has been over the years. What we deemed as sourcing was more like "sources with no argument".

    In addition, ever since browsing books with a semantic search I can see from books like the boxing register or other books, how boxrec is very often wrong or has alternate information.

    Newspaper clippings, may be sources, but these are not accurate sources as well - by virtue of being newspaper clippings.

    So when we want to argue "facts" good luck cause in the world of historical boxing a lot of everything is just hearsay and has little to no factual grounding at all. unfortunate as it is.
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    #2
    Here's an idea, actually do real research for yourself.

    Read books, of accounts of people who were there, actually use your own brain instead of relying on an automated response facility that is quite overtly flawed.

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    • them_apples
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      #3
      Originally posted by NotIron
      Here's an idea, actually do real research for yourself.

      Read books, of accounts of people who were there, actually use your own brain instead of relying on an automated response facility that is quite overtly flawed.
      here's an idea buddy, nobody can read boxing books 12 hours a day. This GPT if you had half a brain, is searching the pages of books for me. What kind of an idiot would not use this new technology. This is not just CHAT GPT, this is chat GPT with a vector database of 250+ books. You got some roid fog or something? making you feel confident spitting out whatever comes to your mind?

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        #4
        Originally posted by them_apples

        here's an idea buddy, nobody can read boxing books 12 hours a day. This GPT if you had half a brain, is searching the pages of books for me. What kind of an idiot would not use this new technology. This is not just CHAT GPT, this is chat GPT with a vector database of 250+ books. You got some roid fog or something? making you feel confident spitting out whatever comes to your mind?
        I know reading books is difficult for you, you stupid cunt But if you just use your fingers on the big words, you'll be alright.

        Failing that, there is still time to unalive yourself.

        Oh look, the admitted roid user brings up roids again Did you forget what happened when you tried to go down this road last time, retard?

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        • them_apples
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          #5
          Originally posted by NotIron

          I know reading books is difficult for you, you stupid cunt But if you just use your fingers on the big words, you'll be alright.

          Failing that, there is still time to unalive yourself.

          Oh look, the admitted roid user brings up roids again Did you forget what happened when you tried to go down this road last time, retard?
          lmao you must hate yourself look how you type

          always telling people to kill themselves is a sure sign of someone who hates themselves....

          imagine you stopped pinning?? you'd be dead in a week from depression

          I didn't forget anything, nobody cares and nothing happened haha

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            #6
            Originally posted by them_apples

            lmao you must hate yourself look how you type

            always telling people to kill themselves is a sure sign of someone who hates themselves....

            imagine you stopped pinning?? you'd be dead in a week from depression

            I didn't forget anything, nobody cares and nothing happened haha
            Imagine you stopped pinning? Remember, when you used to pin yourself with synthetic testosterone?

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            • them_apples
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              #7
              Originally posted by NotIron

              Imagine you stopped pinning? Remember, when you used to pin yourself with synthetic testosterone?
              You don't have to imagine it, I stopped 2 years ago. Side effects were terrible. You want to see a picture of my balls now?

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                #8
                Originally posted by them_apples
                Here is a new problem:

                If you notice, the GPT-5 engine has replaced googles basic key word algo searching. It's reviewing the same info as before, only a much smarter browser. What this shows is how wrong and inaccurate google has been over the years. What we deemed as sourcing was more like "sources with no argument".

                In addition, ever since browsing books with a semantic search I can see from books like the boxing register or other books, how boxrec is very often wrong or has alternate information.

                Newspaper clippings, may be sources, but these are not accurate sources as well - by virtue of being newspaper clippings.

                So when we want to argue "facts" good luck cause in the world of historical boxing a lot of everything is just hearsay and has little to no factual grounding at all. unfortunate as it is.
                Books that do not cite primary sources, such as Unforgiveable Blackness may be entertaining but aren't real sources either.

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                • NotIron
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by them_apples

                  You don't have to imagine it, I stopped 2 years ago. Side effects were terrible. You want to see a picture of my balls now?
                  And? You still pinned. And potentially still do, nobody really knows.

                  That's the consequences of being a PED user, like yourself.

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                  • them_apples
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Bronson66
                    Books that do not cite primary sources, such as Unforgiveable Blackness may be entertaining but aren't real sources either.
                    fair enough, and good on you for mentioning. but all I can do I post where I got it from.

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