Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝Oct 7, 2025

Periodic self-repetition: As a data librarian I can say that "AI" is not a matter of personal preference -- whether you like it or not, or whether you have found some use that you think is useful. It actively destroys organized knowledge, and therefore it actively destroys civilization.

Whenever someone looks for a human written text and can't find it because statistical near variants have been created and indexed, whenever "AI" "hallucinates" a reference, knowledge has been destroyed.

Show threadStephen Dioxide 
@richpuchalsky I think about this more and more. On the one hand, we have vastly more information now than has ever existed before. On the other hand, it's increasingly corrupted, and therefore useless. History may end up being vague on just what happened over the last 30 or 40 years.
Oct 7, 2025 at 2:50pmWeb
Show threadRich Puchalsky ⩜⃝Oct 7, 2025

@Steve

Borges, _The Library of Babel_:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

The Library of Babel - Wikipedia

Show threadShadSterlingOct 10
@Steve @richpuchalsky we already had the problem of having moved to electronic recordkeeping without having figured out good archiving practices for electronic records; now we’ve added the problem that most of the electronic records we have are slop. Yeah, historians are going to have a hard time