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ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit (www.seroundtable.com)

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A study from Profound of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity shows that while ChatGPT mostly sources its information from Wikipedia, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity mostly source their information from Reddit.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I would be hesitant to use either as a primary source...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Sure: for professionals.

However when casually commenting in a forum it is fine because the reader can go check the citations (and perhaps come back and add to the thread).

this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025

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