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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 19 days ago

After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations.

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After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations.

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 19 days ago
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    42•19 days ago

    There’s more to history than Wikipedia. Like physical books

    • @[email protected]
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      18•19 days ago

      I didn’t even think of that 🤦

      I’ve been online for too long

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        19 days ago

        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…

        • @[email protected]
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          15•18 days ago

          I doubt Britanica has a page dedicated to Limp Bizkit.

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          Still have em! They’ll be the last source of actual knowledge once the AI slop destroys us.

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          6•18 days ago

          The encyclopedia even came on CD for a while. It was called Encarta. But I loved my parent’s World Book Encyclopedia much more.

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          And that encyclopedia is online too.

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            3•18 days ago

            And looking up specific species, animals, conditions

    • LustyArgonian
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      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.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum
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      7•19 days ago

      And historians

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        The US based ones will be silenced because the algo will ignore them.

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          3•17 days ago

          Books. Classes. Things outside of the Internet. C’mon.

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            2•17 days ago

            Will all be more difficult.

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              3•17 days ago

              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

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