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Creating reasonable-sounding bullshit used to be hard.

And it was often filler content intended to fool search engines, not to fool people, so telling these apart was easier.


Pages written by specific people had a style that you could estimate the quality of; people and organisations had a need for consistency and trust, that translated to quality of their output that was at least predictable.


Now GenAI slop puts out absolutely any content in a nice little jacket. style is always the same, source is per definition uncertain, and it is automated to care about output over quality, making it harder and more time-intensive to find good information -- and getting harder than it was even in the early nineties when search engines were terribly clunky things.


Which wastes a lot more human time.

And - due to how people work right now - probably leads to more mistakes with no responsibility taken.


So I would like to have have quality well above that, to distill useful things rather than vague repetitions.


We try to specifically say when we're not sure, rather than bluff our way through it in a nice format. This is what (verify) and such are for.


All mistakes in here are at least genuine human misunderstandings, and tend to self-correct over time.

Weird grammar, bad arguments, come from choice, or a lack of our time.

And most importantly, all mistakes and weirdness can be understood and fixed later.