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"correct information" ... you may have been placing too much faith in what's been available before the output of LLM's became widespread.
by h2odragon 2y ago
"correct information" ... you may have been placing too much faith in what's been available before the output of LLM's became widespread.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoYeah. LLMs are going to make it worse. But between propaganda, shills, people with ideological axes to grind, advertising, and others that had reason to try to obscure the truth, finding correct, unbiased information was not easy.
- h2odragon 2y agoI can't recall the time when the Internet was a fountain of Truth, and I've been around a while. So many seem to think that there was a Golden Age when the Ancients issued nothing but Gospel, and its is only modern Sin that has stained the purity of the collective intellect. I think Spafford's Usenet quote [1] has been applicable, in spriti at least, to most publishers. since long before the internet became extant. [1] https://publicquotes.com/quote/448/usenet-is-like-a-herd-of-performing-elephants-with-diarrhea--massive-difficult-to-redirect-awe-inspiring.html https://publicquotes.com/quote/448/usenet-is-like-a-herd-of-...