the content/information rot online since the advent of "AI" a year ago is so real. yesterday when I was searching the internet for reminders on how to do a purl stitch, so many of the top results were random webpages with AI generated instructions that were completely useless. most had no images at all, just a bunch of text, but one even had a couple of (equally useless) pictures!

I hate how hard it's become to find reliable information online these days! It was already getting harder prior to this for other reasons, but AI content has really accelerated the problem.

I used to think "why bother having reference books for non-expert-level information when I can just find that info online in moments about anything I want" but I am starting to change my position on that. maybe I DO need reference books actually.