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Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

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Re: Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

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This is why in itself Wikipedia cannot be a trusted source but should be treated as purely, an extension of the media. They choose who they can cite and who they cannot.

Wikipedia certainly isn't infallible, and on some topics reading the talk page or comparing how the article reads in other languages can broaden your understanding or completely change it.

But if that disqualifies Wikipedia as a "trusted source", which sources deserve that distinction?

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post #12

After watching a female judge sentence a child with autism for killing his rapist and childhood abuser, after he was acquited by a male judge years before, I kind of lost faith in all types of judicial process. AI needs to take over for such things.

This goes against double jeopardy. Do you have a reference?

Re: Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

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post #12

After watching a female judge sentence a child with autism for killing his rapist and childhood abuser, after he was acquited by a male judge years before, I kind of lost faith in all types of judicial process. AI needs to take over for such things.

This goes against double jeopardy. Do you have a reference?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2NZtcfqjDs

Warning: it's very emotional

Re: Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

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How did clerks/lawyers find those articles on Wikipedia? Through Google I reckon. I wonder how bad/good the search is for court judgements of their existing system.

Sounds like they need to put those court judgements online, or if they already are, do some SEO work so they rank. Wikipedia was a great way to do that.

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post #12

After watching a female judge sentence a child with autism for killing his rapist and childhood abuser, after he was acquited by a male judge years before, I kind of lost faith in all types of judicial process. AI needs to take over for such things.

An AI would be trained on human decisions, and unless we're careful it can easily have the same biases as human decision making.

Re: Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

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This is alarming but I'm not sure the study actually finds that "Wikipedia influences judicial behavior" in the way most readers would understand that term - influencing decisions and sentence. It finds that "Getting a public Wikipedia article increased a case’s citations by more than 20 percent." That could mean judges are citing cases with wikipedia entries rather than similar cases without and their judicial behav…

Why would it be alarming. Wikipedia is a fine entry into any topic. Seeing PragerU influencing the court would be alarming.

Re: Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior

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post #12

After watching a female judge sentence a child with autism for killing his rapist and childhood abuser, after he was acquited by a male judge years before, I kind of lost faith in all types of judicial process. AI needs to take over for such things.

You mean when she sentenced a 25 year old with autism of stabbing a bedridden post-stroke 74 year old to death? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-62332824

You're really misrepresenting the case, and I doubt a good AI would rule favorably on those circumstances. The judicial system doesn't tend to go easy on stabbing defenseless people to death, even if you can argue that they were bad people or otherwise deserved it.

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