Comment on I just wanted to know how bad Lead really is and end up here
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 days ago
I definitely heard about this kind of thing earlier than 2025. It’s pretty well-known that the Romans were fond of lead items, including lead-sweetened wine. Seems unlikely that it significantly impacted the decline of the empire, but it probably didn’t help, either.
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 4 days ago
What tripped me up was that out of 17 sources, 11 are dated 2025. Granted, I don’t usually look closely at the sources section, but this spread feels unusual. Also the user seems to be using LLMs not just for this one page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Daniel_Mizen
snoons@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Fuck. Ever read Anathem by Neal Stephenson? They can’t use the internet anymore because it’s so rife with misinformation created by AI (they used a different term in the book iirc) that it is inherently useless.
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I’m not a huge reader so no, I haven’t, but it sure does sound interesting. As long as we have shitposts tho I think the internet is not yet prone to becoming entirely useless, at least for now.
snoons@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Yeah, not yet; hopefly not ever. In the book the tech was eventually used by governments to rewrite everything on the web to be in line with their propaganda so anything posted would be rowlitten multiple times by bots.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 days ago
… yeah that’s sounds pretty bad.