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The people telling you Wikipedia wasn't a valid source were teachers who wanted you to learn to verify information. The people telling you to "just ask chatgpt" are middle managers who just want to get their kpi up to justify their yearly bonus.
They were never the same people, and implying they are is very disingenuous.
They should have told their students to use the sources cited on Wikipedia (when credible), not pretended that the entirety of the world's premier encyclopedia is only a wretched hive of vandalism and misinformation.
The "don't believe everything you read on the internet" (90s) to "reads a lot of clickbait articles" (~2010 and beyond)) pipeline is real, though.
Both of my parents are examples of that, though my dad is center right by Danish standards and my mom is left wing, so none of the articles are from Faux News or Breitbart, thank FSM!
Unusual straw man because that is what we do.
I was unaware of the change since it's been a long time since I was in school myself. My bad 🤷🏻
I don't know what sort of school, and I wasn't coming after you, but educational attainment gets shot on a lot.
A significant proportion of our training is understanding information. Where it comes from, how useful it is, etc. Trust in information is vital to our existence.
At the time teachers said that, it was not the “world’s premier encyclopedia” though.
Yes and no: teachers have been saying that for awhile, and some still say it...
That's why you cite wikipedias sources and not wikipedia, teachers hate this one little trick.
my older bro use it annoyingly so much, he thinks its th primary problem solver for all your questions, and hes in tech. i was thinking dude use your brain. even directly going to a reddit post is "better", since likely someone has asked that direct question you are asking and already answered, an LLM cant differentiate that they just combine it into one summary.
I still find it bananas how someone can work in tech and be happy with LLMs. I'm a software developer, and when I'm forced to use an LLM I just want to cry. It takes more time to tell it what to do, than if I'd done it myself, and if I miss a part of it, then it'll fill in the blanks and make absolutely wild assumptions.