Post #1021854

2026-04-08 18:54 UTC

LLMs are poisoning the knowledge base that has been painstakingly accumulated over the course of human history. We will, if this is allowed to continue, find that we have &quot;destroyed the Library of Alexandria&quot; once again. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y?utm_source=Live+Audience&amp;utm_campaign=4b50fd2341-nature-briefing-daily-20260408&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-49717696

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@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world 2026-04-08 19:04

@tompearce49@mastodon.scot I read earlier that 9 out of 10 Google "AI" summaries are accurate - or to put it another way, that 10% of them contain errors. That's enough to cause those errors to proliferate across the internet, and be replicated even by those who largely write their own work, but may have used a summary as a jumping-off point. Of course that's going to poison the well of human knowledge over time, as even legitimate sourcing becomes less reliable. This technology is like universal acid.

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@ipofanes@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 05:29

@tompearce49@mastodon.scot the perfect moment to discuss the business model of Springer Nature.

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@Photo55@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 09:26

@tompearce49@mastodon.scot I have a paper copy of #Britannica and I'm keeping it. I hope there are archival copies of Wikipedia circulating, and offline.

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