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University professor, circa 2010 : You can’t trust Wikipedia. You cannot use it for your essay.
University professor, circa 2025 : Here are powerpoint sildes on how to use ChatGPT to do your essay.
Personal conclusion: the only problem with Wikipedia was that it was not corporately owned and that it had no marketing budget.
@ploum I genuinely still don't get this, how such a vast majority of educators encouraging the use of such a damaging tool but were never okay with wikipedia for absolutely no reason!! At least I was never given an actual reason why wikipedia wasn't an acceptable source, idk about you guys
@agasramirez @ploum well that makes a lot of sense, I think that's a very sensible thing to tell students honestly. That's the way we should learn it, not asking an ai bot, specially with all the information we have about the damage they cause