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   simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 01:33:17 JST simsa03
   María Luisa Paúl, "A Brazilian city passed a law about water meters. ChatGPT wrote it." https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/04/ai-written-law-porto-alegre-brazil/
   
   If AI can already write a bill in 15 seconds, then it can write lexicograpical artikels for #Wikipedia. No further need to exploit unpaid "volunteer" editors, #Wikimedia.
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 08:05:17 JST tinydoctor

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     @simsa03 Good thing I've still got my 1911 Britannica.

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 08:32:30 JST simsa03

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     • tinydoctor
     And I really would like to have that one. (Didn't Freud write an article in it on psychoanalysis and Einstein on his theory of relaivity?) Instead I got the 15th edition from 2005. (And an online subscription to the current EB.)
     
     Still, thanks to the Interwebs all people click the online sources and printed books land in the thrift shops. Where I can get them for a 10th of the original price ,or less. Which is why my "Museum of Outdated & Neglected Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias" keeps rejoicing.
     
     (My latest purchase was the 10 vols. hardcover edition of the "Dictionary of German Superstition" (1927-1942, ed. by a Swiss board). Simply lovely.)
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