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I was close to finishing school when Wikipedia came up. A lot of complaints and concerns about LLMs today echo remarks about Wikipedia back then. Kids won’t learn anything, they will just copy and paste! The information is unreliable, our kids will stop thinking critically or learning how to research!

While I don’t mean to equate both, I find the resemblance in this case striking.

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> A lot of complaints and concerns about LLMs today echo remarks about Wikipedia back then.

I have also noticed this.

How LLMs can never be trusted because they are stochastic sounds very similar to how Wikipedia can never be trusted because it sometimes has a bad-faith edit.

Or how the people that don't believe information should be free are very active in both the anti-Wikipedia and anti-llm crowds. And use much of the same talking points.

Have publishers have sued Wikipedia too?

They are not necessarily complaints about wikipedia, more about internet in general.

Also, the young wikipedia was very different from what it is today.

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