@[email protected] to [email protected] • 19 days agoAfter they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations.message-square114fedilinkarrow-up1420
arrow-up1420message-squareAfter they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations.@[email protected] to [email protected] • 19 days agomessage-square114fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink42•19 days agoThere’s more to history than Wikipedia. Like physical books
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink18•19 days agoI didn’t even think of that 🤦 I’ve been online for too long
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink31•edit-219 days agoBack in my day you had to buy Wikipedia. It came in like 20 massive volumes that ate up a shelf or two. Thinking about it… I wonder what my parents did with our copies…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•18 days agoI doubt Britanica has a page dedicated to Limp Bizkit.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•18 days agoStill have em! They’ll be the last source of actual knowledge once the AI slop destroys us.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•18 days agoThe encyclopedia even came on CD for a while. It was called Encarta. But I loved my parent’s World Book Encyclopedia much more.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•18 days agoAnd looking up specific species, animals, conditions
minus-squareLustyArgonianlinkfedilinkEnglish1•17 days agoNot all physical books are accessible, eg the log books of Christopher Columbus. DOGE is defunding libraries and Dept of Ed. Academics are fleeing. This collapse of knowledge is bad.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•18 days agoThe US based ones will be silenced because the algo will ignore them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•17 days agoBooks. Classes. Things outside of the Internet. C’mon.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•17 days agoNot really? Wikipedia is only one small resource. A useful one but it’s only a starting off point at best for any real study
There’s more to history than Wikipedia. Like physical books
I didn’t even think of that 🤦
I’ve been online for too long
Back in my day you had to buy Wikipedia. It came in like 20 massive volumes that ate up a shelf or two.
Thinking about it… I wonder what my parents did with our copies…
I doubt Britanica has a page dedicated to Limp Bizkit.
Still have em! They’ll be the last source of actual knowledge once the AI slop destroys us.
The encyclopedia even came on CD for a while. It was called Encarta. But I loved my parent’s World Book Encyclopedia much more.
And that encyclopedia is online too.
And looking up specific species, animals, conditions
Not all physical books are accessible, eg the log books of Christopher Columbus. DOGE is defunding libraries and Dept of Ed. Academics are fleeing. This collapse of knowledge is bad.
And historians
The US based ones will be silenced because the algo will ignore them.
Books. Classes. Things outside of the Internet. C’mon.
Will all be more difficult.
Not really? Wikipedia is only one small resource. A useful one but it’s only a starting off point at best for any real study