Comment on It used to be a library
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The social contract was that everyone was a custodian of that library. That’s how we got Wikipedia.
Social media and monetization broke that social contract. Another building was constructed beside the library. People were checking out books from the library and selling them at the market.
Now with LLMs, those books are being burnt. There’s a trillion dollar giga-sized building next to the derelict library and the fast becoming defunct market that is industrial scale mass producing pulpy books.
Tja@programming.dev 2 days ago
Wikipedia still exists, in fact it’s expanding every day…
alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And the fascists have been going after it wholesale.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Yeah, and communists, and pedophiles, and greens, and…
Wikipedia has always been the target of people trying to bend public opinion, that’s why it has the processes in place that it has, and [citation needed] all around.