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Where’s Mister Klippy when you need him?

The thing I like the most about AI is the disclaimer at the bottom of a search that states, “AI can make mistakes.”…now, that’s authentic intelligence.

I use Wikipedia and donate a modest amount to them every month and it would be sad if the musk destroys it!

Also, for some topics, Wikipedia provides absolutely the real deal, and you don't need to go elsewhere: I'm thinking of shorter proofs of theorems in Mathematics or Theoretical Physics. If you read, follow and digest a Wikipedia proof of Pythagoras's Theorem, for example, it's as good as a textbook.

I hear the same people say both things in the same day.

In my day job I ask people to look stuff up on wikipedia. Most fail. They don’t understand you can’t ask it questions

A good Wikipedia article includes valid sources.

And then you use it, get a reply of "Let the orgy of blood letting commence" but try and implement the guidance and it's not Grok getting a HR meeting is it?

We live in the dumbest of all possible worlds.

God this hurts so much and is so fucking true. We’re so cooked

Up your correct. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/08/comm...

AI is fine to get a quick overview of something you already know .. on all other tasks it may be a helping hand, but i also might be useless if you cant verify for possible errors or if you take everything for real ..

now you can tell them

why not upgrade to a Ouija Board

lol, and where was ChatGPT trained exactly? Critical thinking could save us if we let it.

I don't know what kind of people you're hanging around, but that is not a phrase used in my circles.

There's this: Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica share.google/E5IwWAUKJMzt...

I warn my students off of most things. They ask where they should get their information. I point them to actual dictionaries, encyclopedias, and news sources. They ask for links. I give them and they ask what makes them different. “It’s you checking real information, not an algorithm.” A struggle.

The worst part about the former narrative is that it caused my old school district to straight up block Wikipedia on all the computers meaning I had to go to different, generally worse sites for general knowledge (not even for like research for school or anything)

Wikipedia doesn’t seem so bad after all

People that say, “just ask chatGPT” should be shot.

TBF As a teacher, I did not accept Wikipedia references for many years, but as it gained solidity, I would take it as one of several references required. I would NEVER take ChatGPT because as it gains more knowledge, I believe it will widen what it says to the point of nonesense.

I fume when someone has the audacity say it to me!

And what for? So that the horrendous ecocidal fascist tool will regurgitate a Wikipedia article anyways? I’d rather keep supporting an ever-changing online encyclopedia than to ask any of those GPTs a single question

And ChatGPT just looks it up on Wikipedia.

Exactly.

I don’t trust that thing.

and sometimes they ask a question, Google's ai summary says "yes" in a paragraph and lists 3 points that explain why not, and the source where it's apparently from... and the person shows it saying "you see, internet says yes"

I find wiki most helpful.

I grew up whith the phrase: "You dont need any typewriter, we do all the writing for you." That was in the 1980ies, in the leninist authoritarian East Germany. It did not end well for those who did all the writing... Lets see how it ends for those who now do the filtering of whats written.

I'll take @wikipedia.org any day, and even some Ai will reference wiki anyway (and I'd still double check with Wikipedia, just to be sure)