Before AI: 'Wikipedia Isn't a Valid Source.' After AI: 'Please Just Look at Wikipedia'
NC_Renic · x · 2026-10-05
A one-line contrast joke: before AI, teachers said "Wikipedia is not a valid source for your essays"; after AI, it became "I'm begging you to at least take a look at Wikipedia." The quip skewers how, with AI-generated content flooding in, a human-checkable source like Wikipedia has become the more reliable floor.
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