Search results are useless, AI is poisoning Wikipédia. While I do have the patience to read primary sources in my field of study, it becomes a nightmare to repeat this process for every bit of information I want.

I’m almost signing up for Encyclopedia Britannica. I don’t know what else to do.

  • disregardable@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    really you don’t. you read forum posts and try to guess to what degree the information is credible.

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      3 months ago

      the problem is finding those forum posts

      Google doesn’t return them anymore. I have much more luck with duckduckgo when I want to find an answer to a specific question