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This didn't occur to me until reading this, but what if the next generation doesn't understand what a web page is in the same way that mobile devices keep the y
by add-sub-mul-div 11mo ago
This didn't occur to me until reading this, but what if the next generation doesn't understand what a web page is in the same way that mobile devices keep the younger generations from understanding how to interact with a filesystem?
What if there's a generation that doesn't know how to get information from a primary source because all they know is asking one of three tech giants a question and getting an answer they don't even realize is opaque and editorialized?
- Schiendelman 11mo agoI hate to break it to you, but almost no one knows how to get information from a primary source. The only difference is that between an ML model making the video and an ML model deciding which of thousands of existing videos on the topic to show them. The same editorial influence has existed for a decade already.
- add-sub-mul-div 11mo agoWe can excuse anything getting worse by citing an exaggerated framing of it being bad already. But should we?
- bronlund 11mo agoWho said it was getting worse? Being able to get information from an LLM trained on an ungodly amount of information instead of having to ask an old fart holding a bible, is real progress in my eyes.