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Jan Ainali (ainali@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 15:54:02 JST Jan Ainali
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@selenadeckelmann It's good that Betteridge's law holds. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
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  Betteridge's law of headlines
  
  Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older. It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not. The adage does not apply to questions that are more open-ended than strict yes–no questions.The maxim has been cited by other names since 1991, when a published compilation of Murphy's law variants called it "Davis's law", a name that also appears online without any explanation of who Davis was. It has also been referred to as the "journalistic principle" and in 2007 was referred to in commentary as "an old truism among journalists". History Betteridge's name became associated with the concept after he discussed it in a February 2009 article, which examined a previous TechCrunch article that carried the headline "Did Last.fm...
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  Selena Deckelmann (selenadeckelmann@wikimedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 15:54:03 JST Selena Deckelmann
  
  If there was a generative artificial intelligence system that could, on its own, write all the information contained in Wikipedia, would it be the same as Wikipedia today? I wrote a little about ML and generative AI: https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikipedias-value-in-the-age-of-generative-ai-b19fec06bbee
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    Wikipedia’s value in the age of generative AI
    
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    In an internet flooded with machine generated content, Wikipedia becomes even more valuable.

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