re: Looks like AI may be sucking the blood out of Wikipedia

Cool. Wiki has become pretty far left anyway.

There’s no AI rabbit holes like Wikipedia can lead you on

Good riddance, years ago they decided to be gate keepers instead of truth tellers so frick them

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AI doesn't pull THIS when I'm trying to learn something

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Lol if you don't think that is coming

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Rick Beato has a new YouTube video where he tests various AI programs with a math teaser. They often screw up what his 9 year old son can do.

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That was a great video all around. It should be its own thread.

I think you’ll soon start seeing groups like 4 Chan peppering the internet with coordinated fake primary sources to create ridiculous stories for the bot trawlers.

It seems you just need to create an AI alter ego to start the peer review web, and then it’s off to the races.

“Meat expert José Manuel Lorenzo, 46, is the researcher who has published the most scientific studies in Spain. He put his name on 176 papers last year”

“At one point, Lorenzo began collaborating with exotic researchers — who nobody knew about — on topics that have nothing to do with meat. Four months ago, he published a study on the hospital management of monkeypox, alongside Iraqi, Indian and Pakistani co-authors. And a year ago, he and some researchers from India and Saudi Arabia published an article on the treatment of gum disease with bee venom. In a telephone conversation with EL PAÍS, Lorenzo admits that he doesn’t know any of these co-authors in person, nor is he an expert on any of these issues.“

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That is why news websites and other digital archives need to be archived. Because what happens once Newspapers that were printed are now totally online and no longer in print or websites go offline when a paper is shuttered.

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A woman in the 70s was ahead of you on this thought.

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if you are not paying for the product, you are the product

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Almost nobody asks why there isn't an option to subscribe to FB, IG, anything else for a couple of bucks to not be tracked. It's because your data is more valuable in aggregate than you paying them $100 a year.

You see the brand obsession, even with dudes who think they're immune, all over TD, and it was generated by social media tracking. All Cats are the only pants I wear to work, etc.

It always pisses me off that they would beg for money like a god damn mega church preacher instead of putting some very tiny text based unintrusive ads on the site.