AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of an already contested part of games culture
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Recently, I was writing a piece about Nighthawks and wanted to remind myself of some basic information about the companion characters. As I have a thousand times before, I put the question into Google and clicked the first result: the Nighthawks Wiki.
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AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of an already contested part of games culture
Recently, I was writing a piece about Nighthawks and wanted to remind myself of some basic information about the companion characters. As I have a thousand times before, I put the question into Google and clicked the first result: the Nighthawks Wiki.
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