Now a days people refer to AI instantly for an answer. Maybe it’s a problem they could have solved within 10min in their head or a question they could have done an internet search on and read a few forums to figure out. However, now people go straight to AI which is known to give many many wrong answers.
I know a couple people that fit this bill and now I almost completely disregard what they say. We’ll even be talking face to face and they’ll ask AI something from our conversation in real time.
The article in your library/wikipedia/forum takes 10 contributors and publishes a single, public article for which all can see it. Chatbots take 10 contributions and summarizes them into a single, private article that undergoes no review whatsoever. If you don’t already know the answer, you have no inclination as to what’s true. It’s nowhere near the same.
Nope, statistically information was just unreliable. And before internet is even worse. Doomers just don’t want to believe we’re actually not regressing but I get it - the real answer is just too boring.