Search results are useless, AI is poisoning Wikipédia. While I do have the patience to read primary sources in my field of study, it becomes a nightmare to repeat this process for every bit of information I want.
I’m almost signing up for Encyclopedia Britannica. I don’t know what else to do.
Huh?
Yeah I don’t get that. Wikipedia is a fine source.
Wikipedia has an army of human writers that probably don’t take too kindly to AI.
It’s actually about 15 people that mostly maintain it.
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Anyone can make edits, but it’s mostly doone by a handful of people.
This guy for example created 1/3rd of the articles. https://youtu.be/JhNczOuhxeg?si=BkpyXFESIkJHHwOQ
That guy has made edits to a third of pages. Minor ones like making sure articles conform to the style guide.
Wikipédia is fighting an ongoing and ever increasing issue of collaborators pushing AI text into articles, which contain false information.
And there’s corporations pushing agendas into primary sources. And there’s lying liars who lie for lying’s sake.
If you’re going to draw the line at “unassailable truth” then you’re doing all the work yourself.
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