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systemstops | 4 months ago

It's got some obvious bias right now, but some articles are already better than Wikipedia - for example on the origin of Covid. I'm not really going to trust either one of them for the foreseeable future.

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bigyabai|4 months ago

> I'm not really going to trust either one of them for the foreseeable future.

  Situation: there is one mediocre online crowdsourced encyclopedia

  "The crowdsourced encyclopedia is untrustworthy? How ridiculous! We need to develop an AI-powered black-box that replaces everyone's Wikipedia use-cases!"

  Soon: there is one mediocre online crowdsourced encyclopedia, and Elon Musk's website developed in response to crowdsourced encyclopedias
It's the Full Self Driving of online research. Who wouldn't trust it?

systemstops|4 months ago

Maybe it will be a shot in arm for Wikipedia to make some needed reforms.