The more I read about AI, the companies behind the construction and fielding of AI and the hallucinations and outright lies and the lengths to which one has to go to pin an AI down to the actual truth of things, the more inclined I am to thinking we need to make sure that the Encyclopedia Britannica is always published in hardback and updated annually by the old system of publishing a new collective volume every year. The old versions must all be retained and safely stored.
The things people know now are largely completely unknown to Gen X and below. They don't know and they don't care and yet these are the essential truths underlying our reality and cannot be ignored for long because that was what DEI was all about and we know how that worked out. History demands controls and it should not be continually rewritten to satisfy the lowest common denominator or the other idiots with academic titles and degrees.
Vernor Vinge captured the future path of AI pretty closely when he wrote Rainbows End. I don't recommend the book to read but the subplot described the plan to equip AI with the knowledge of everything ever written down by feeding it every book ever written and to that end the evil corporation bought all the biggest/best libraries in the world and took the books and dumped them into book shredders so that the optical scanners could store them electronically in the AI database.
As those who have walked into modern public libraries know, there is no need for evil corporation because fewer and fewer books are found in more and more libraries. It's all available online now. Read it on kindle. How this jibes with the accurate recording of The Conquest of Mexico or The Conquest of Peru is best left in the flooded basement. In a hundred years there won't be any modern books left. There is literally nobody who wants them and they end up in the dumpsters.
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