If you're writing a research paper, which is when you were taught not to cite wikipedia in school, you should also not cite chatgpt. You're talking about business, where no one gave a fuck before and they definitely don't give a fuck meow

my theory has always been the textbook publishers told teachers that Wikipedia was bad because its online and anyone can edit it, whilst the textbooks are "peer reviewed" and only have "truthful information".

meanwhile, modern textbooks are being generated via chatgpt.

People never really cared about information hygiene.

They tried to teach it at the “dawn of the internet for the average person” back then. The lesson was supposed to be to follow Wikipedia’s links, which do cite primary sources.

This is true.

But it turns out, no one cares. Schools failed. People fundamentally want validation of what feels good, and social media took full advantage of this.

Its simple actually.

Boomers are always correct, you are always wrong.

... see how this works?

Thats the underlying consistent principle that is held to. Everything else is inconsistent fluff.

Whatever they think is neat, is correct. Whatever they think is stupid, is wrong.

They own the media, they run the culture.

Worse the people which use Fox News, Truth Social and a TikTok influencer as valid source.

Just use the sources cited in Wikipedia

AI implementation in every Browser has me looking up information direktly on wikipedia.org without going through a search engine first.

The difference is AI makes line go up.

Nothing really is that's why you got to be a critical thinker and grab it by the horns. Learning is doing. The masters curate the world to their benefit and if you are lucky you cut a path in. It is not what you do but what you won’t do trying to avoid the blow back of others stupid choices. In a modern world of idol whoreship it is hard to fit in.

Fuck that, they straight up accepted sources that cited Wikipedia.

And ChatGPT cites Wikipedia

I don't know. This just seems like the logical next step from "just Google it." I'm under the impression that search results were tailored for the user and even if they weren't most of the time Google just seemed like a tool for confirmation bias, not education.

That said, Wikipedia isn't a valid source due to the fact that it can be subject to change in ways that can make it difficult to check later. That saaaaaid, Wikipedia has sources you can potentially investigate and cite soooo... I mean... Just saying.

It was always kinda a spectrum anyways

@thal3s Yes, this is a strange time to be alive.

"infuriating" you mean this right?