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		BryantD on Nov 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain Would you say Wikipedia has had a significant impact on society?

mschuster91 on Nov 20, 2023 [–]

Of course it has. Wikipedia is the first (and only) truly global source of knowledge, to a depth no other encyclopedia has ever covered before - and with an unmatched capability to react to current events.

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