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A photo of Ryan Gosling with the caption, ‘Growing up hearing "Wikipedia isn't a valid source" and then entering a workplace where people say "just ask ChatGPT" is a surprisingly strange timeline’
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

I think the idea was that authors / professors of textbooks have a reputation to loose if they publish bullshit. Like they are the authority on a topic and if wrong they loose that status / prestige.

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