I'm concerned about what the proliferation of #LLM agents is doing to communal knowledge, and my mind keeps drawing parallels between what we see happening here and disasters that farming malpractices caused in the early to mid 20th century.

In a way, we are repeating the same errors, just with a different medium. Warnings from experts are being ignored, recommended practices are being skipped in favour of expediency and short-term gain.

Are we witnessing the making of the first digital Dust Bowl?

@claus Thank you for that. The dust bowl is the perfect analogy.

I'm teaching my kids to trust older books and to only trust web information if it's from earlier than 2022, or if it is provably not slop.