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toast_y
Nov 03, 2023Copper Contributor
bing chat keeps using wikipedia as a source
Not sure if this is post-worthy but I thought I should share to see if anyone else is having similar issues. I use Bing chat quite frequently to give me a starting point or inspiration for writi...
BornAProphet
Nov 24, 2025Copper Contributor
2 years later:
It is still the same issue, even with the full integration of Copilot. Bing and Copilot heavily relies on Wikipedia. As I just pointed out to sdpate, who claimed, "Bing Chat is not allowed to use Wikipedia," one just simply needs to ask. The answer is yes. Copilot can now exclude it, but it then pulls the resource links from the Wikipedia pages pages instead.
With Bing there is still no way to exclude it. With Copilot, it has a hard time with both sides of information. If you want to create a debate situation, or find out both sides of a story, it takes a lot of manual research and the use of alternative search engines and AI to set it up.
It's almost pointless when dealing with any kind of US history, or US politics.