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it seems very possible that we are now exiting the brief window where a good fraction of all of human knowledge was searchable & instantly available. a window that starts with the invention of the search engine & ends with the invention of large language models.
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the goldilocks period between too hard to access & too hard to discern from bullshit
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this thread prompted by this thread: woof.group/@aphyr/109458365227242881
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previously, on search engines getting worse: @v21/1435145965166637058
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previously, on AI outputs getting shuffled back into the corpuses they're trained upon: @v21/1490298544477065219