Over on X I was trying out their #AI called Grok, and asked it a factual question. It returned a text it wrote while aggregating various sources, e.g., #Wikipedia. years ago I had conversations with people from #Wikimedia that due to machine learning, AI, and automated text-generation, Wikipedia's concept of articles consisting of lemma and corpus, is an outdated form of organizing "knowledge". In the future, I mused, people will ask a question and corresponding (!) to the level of differentiation, machines will provide a written text as answer, based on crawling the net for information. "Knowledge" will thus not be structured as lemma plus corpus but as transitory, individualized question plus answer. I suggested to those Wikimedians that they need to hurry to come up with a proper technical form for such "new" #lexicography, because right now -- that is: back then -- Wikipedia, by mimicking knowledge-presentation of material books and paper-based compendiums, is the last of its kind. As far as I know, Wikimedia never took up on this change, and now the Musks, Zuckerbergs, Gates, the surveillance capitalists have taken over not with a service but a new way of lexicography that Wikimedia and the various Wikipedia editons have missed out on. It will be interesting to see whether and how Wikimedia and Wikipedia can catch up.

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