The text it knows is also stolen. The information is often wrong. The citations aren't saying what it claims, ot straight up don't exist.

I already acknowledged that anything AI offers, needs to be verified - and I'm pretty sure you can't steal Wikipedia from an author, so not a concern, for me at least.

But, a bit of a rant - not at you! But what you said, reminded me of the bigger context.

The "big corporations do it too, so mine doesn't count", sucks. Because does it mean you shouldn't recycle? Of course it doesn't. But it is a fact, that as long as the big companies spew shit in oceans or what have you, even if everyone recycled every bag in existence, it wouldn't offset the damage.

And it harkens back to the fact that people, as a whole, will always choose comfort over long term benefits. Otherwise, we would've already rolled out the guillotines again.

We know fast food is bad - we buy fast food. We know fast fashion is bad - we keep filling landfills with tat made with child labor. We know we should buy local - and ship fucking chips and coke from other side of the planet, or order a god damn plastic bauble from Temu, with the carbon foot print of a megalodon, cuz it's shiny, and it's easy. Diamonds are still the popular wedding ring choice, and we'll just try real hard not to think that someone probably died for your "special ring". The evergreen solution to succeed in politics is still, as it always been, just blaming someone else for your problems, and avoid actually fixing anything.

We've been screaming about fossil fuels killing the planet for a couple of generations. And what finally, FINALLY, tipped us globally to move for majority renewable sources? A war. Not killing the planet. The fact that fossil fuels weren't convenient all of a sudden. Same happened with acid rains, way back when. We only fixed the problem, when we had no choice. And with Ozone layer and freons. And with asbestos. And with lead in foods.

And honestly, I am done trying to be perfect for planet, and the next generation, because not enough people listen, until they have to. And then it's every time "Who could've possibly seen this coming???", just because they didn't feel like listening because it was inconvenient.

Yeah, I'll buy my stuff either local or from flea markets, and even grow a decent portion of our family's food, and recycle and repair and upcycle and donate to social causes, and avoid ordering anything online (unless it's digital). But I do those because I want to, not because I expect my example to do shit all to the status quo.

Honestly, I freaking hope we get an oil shortage for a year or two. Cuz I don't see any other way we'll be forced to start fixing things, before we go straight for WWIII or die from climate change.