Yeah yeah, there was also SCIgen in 2005 (when 3 MIT students submitted a fake paper and got it accepted). I believe the difference is scale. It's not just Wik

Yeah yeah, there was also SCIgen in 2005 (when 3 MIT students submitted a fake paper and got it accepted). I believe the difference is scale. It's not just Wikipedia, it's the whole web. Billions and billions are burned (and it seems highly unsustainable, where previously, stuff was made to work in public labs - possibly with things like Grid5000, but that's nothing compared to what's training and running LLMs today). One fifth to one third of HN's front page is AI. The thing is mainstream and omnipresent (before 2022, that stuff was mostly people working in research and tech companies, the informed general public might have heard of ML). Around 2015, we were there: https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/ (explain xkcd says September 24, 2014)