Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 days agoAfter they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations.message-squaremessage-square112linkfedilinkarrow-up1417arrow-down115
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minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up41arrow-down5·8 days agoThere’s more to history than Wikipedia. Like physical books
minus-squareLustyArgonian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·6 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-squareuntakenusername@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up18·8 days agoI didn’t even think of that 🤦 I’ve been online for too long
minus-squarecannedtuna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down1·edit-28 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-squaredaggermoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·8 days agoI doubt Britanica has a page dedicated to Limp Bizkit.
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 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-squarestarlinguk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 days agoAnd that encyclopedia is online too.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agoAnd looking up specific species, animals, conditions
minus-squareapplemao@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoStill have em! They’ll be the last source of actual knowledge once the AI slop destroys us.
minus-squareStinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 days agoAnd historians
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·7 days agoThe US based ones will be silenced because the algo will ignore them.
minus-squareagent_nycto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·7 days agoBooks. Classes. Things outside of the Internet. C’mon.
minus-squareagent_nycto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·6 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
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.
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.
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
Still have em! They’ll be the last source of actual knowledge once the AI slop destroys us.
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