Get Books Before AI Ruins Knowledge

The internet is quickly becoming an informational wasteland of regurgitated bullshit.

It really doesn’t matter which topic you’re trying to look up. Usually you’ll find the same information phrased in a slightly different manner over and over and over again. It seems like that there is only one way of doing things in the modern era and everybody is just rephrasing it in their own words, presenting it as some sort of original work.

Most of the things you can read online about any topic are mostly incomplete, half baked and most of the time are only scratching the surface of the topic. If you want to dig deeper it becomes almost impossible as if somebody is trying to gate keep or hide away the rest of the knowledge from you. Everybody keeps rewriting the same blog post again and again. YouTube isn’t really better in that regard. People are re-recording the same video with their own personal spin without any added value for the viewer.

With the advent of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, this problem will amplify itself times infinity. AI is becoming the single source of truth for the masses as it’s much easier for the bug men to ask ChatGPT something, instead of coming to a conclusion on their own. Soon SEO optimized, AI generated content will flood the internet, drowning out, genuine knowledge and information even more.

It will become increasingly harder to find true, original, deep, knowledge. If you’re looking to gain knowledge, you should get books, while their content is still valuable and not generated by AI. Personally I prefer physical books, but you can get the digital versions as well. It’s up to you. Getting them digitally usually doesn’t require a lot of money invested, if at all. A lot of great books are circulating online as PDFs, ready to be downloaded. Start building your collection today.