I've been trying to add high quality elevation data to the maps on my blog. I'm way out of my depth trying to convert things from one format to another. There a

I've been trying to add high quality elevation data to the maps on my blog. I'm way out of my depth trying to convert things from one format to another. There are seemingly endless ways to store the data and a bunch of acronyms (DEM, DTM, DSM, SRTM etc.) Anyway, I resorted to ChatGPT to help. It gave me a complete end to end process, including how to install tools, that was almost entirely wrong at every step. But, in one step it pointed me towards a tool I didn't know about, and that too finally plugged the gap I needed. I was able to do this because I treat ChatGPT like any other source of knowledge: with a healthy dose of scepticism. Almost everything I do is piecing together knowledge from different sources, written at different levels for different audiences etc. What worries me is whether kids are going to miss out on this. Seeing a fully typeset document or listening to pristine audio of someone who intentionally sounds so confidently correct seems like it will really fuck with their ability to discern the truth. They'll either believe everything, or they'll believe nothing. What worries me even more is these models are controlled by an oligopoly who twist and bend them to fit their own beliefs and narratives. Instead of going to the public library children will be getting knowledge filtered through layers of "AI" that will never tell them anything it's not supposed to tell them.