2026-09-28 12:49 UTC
AI chatbots give us a narrow slice of knowledge: Researchers warn of ‘knowledge collapse’
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1429829/ai-chatbots-give-us-a-narrow-slice-of-knowledge-researchers-warn-of-knowledge-collapse
Replies (2)
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-09-28 19:09
Not really an issue if the knowledge they expose you to is still more than you can absorb. Classic web search can show you 10x more info but you will just skim it anyway and absorb only tiny portion of it.
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@NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 2026-09-28 16:02
There are a lot of reasons to hate AI, I don’t really buy into this one. “New technology only captures a subset of knowledge” is just not a new issue, and fearmongering around it is not new either. I would be concerned about language collapse (i.e. models incrementally forget vocabulary + fail to adapt to new terms leading to language becoming incrementally worse) before I would worry about knowledge collapse, and I’m not that worries about language collapse.