I have left comments on HN and Reddit and then found them rolled into Google's AI search summarizer OR the knowledge box with _extreme rapidity_ such that when I went, mere moments later, to go re-check some fact I had cited, I found my own comment at the top of the results, repeated back to me, but with authority and gravitas, ensconced in the austere trappings of the knowledge box.

in addition to a relevant xkcd, there is also a Wikipedia article about the phenomenon and a behind-the-scenes list

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting#On_Wikipedi...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...

- previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35535407

Mobile version

https://m.xkcd.com/978/

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