I read the whole thing and I wasn’t 100% what the point was beyond the title. I still feel like responding with “it always has been.”

I guess it’s that they like to give new websites she finds the benefit of the doubt for the off chance that she might gain new knowledge about a subject, but:

• people perpetuate misinformation to make a quick buck off as revenue

• LLMs make the problem even worse

• they feel powerless to do anything about it

None of which is an excitingly new revelation if you have been paying attention for the last decade or so.

But as someone looking for a copy of Phantasy Star, I found out there’s a reprint of it on Genesis thanks to this blog, so that’s good! Now to see if they’re telling the truth…