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There's something darkly funny about that - I remember when the web wasn't considered reliable either. There's certainly echoes of that previous furore in this
by flir 1y ago
There's something darkly funny about that - I remember when the web wasn't considered reliable either.
There's certainly echoes of that previous furore in this one.
- otabdeveloper4 1y ago> I remember when the web wasn't considered reliable either It still isn't.
- commakozzi 1y agoYes, it still isn't, we all know that. But we all also know that it was MUCH more unreliable then. Everyone's just being dishonest to try to make a point on this.
- flir 1y agoI'm more talking about the conversation around it, rather than its absolute unreliability, so I think they're missing the point a bit. It's the same as the "never use your real name on the internet" -> facebook transition. Things get normalized. "This too shall pass."
- fc417fc802 1y ago> I remember when the web wasn't considered reliable either. That changed? There are certainly reliable resources available via the web but those definitely account for the minority of the content.
- flir 1y agoI think it got backgrounded. I'm talking about the first big push, early 90s. I remember lots of handwringing from humanities peeps that boiled down to "but just anyone can write a web page!" I don't think it changed, I do think people stopped talking about it.
- SpicyLemonZest 1y agoThe web remains unreliable. It's very useful, so good web users have developed a variety of strategies to extract and verify reliable information from the unreliable substrate, much as good AI users can use modern LLMs to perform a variety of tasks. But I also see a lot of bad web users and bad AI users who can't reliably distinguish between "I saw well written text saying X" and "X is true".