As my high school teacher used to say, not everything is on the internet, because I have not put it there.
“For many people, GenAI is becoming their primary way to learn about the world. A large-scale study published in September 2025, analysing how people have been using ChatGPT since its launch in November 2022, revealed that around half the queries were for practical guidance, or to seek information. These systems may appear neutral, but they are far from it. The most popular models privilege dominant epistemologies (typically Western and institutional) while marginalising alternative ways of knowing, especially those encoded in oral traditions, embodied practice and the languages considered ‘low-resource’ in the computing world, such as Hindi or Swahili, both spoken by hundreds of millions. By amplifying these hierarchies, GenAI risks contributing to the erasure of systems of understanding that have evolved over centuries, disconnecting future generations from vast bodies of insights and wisdom that were never encoded yet remain essential to human ways of knowing. What’s at stake then isn’t just representation – it’s the resilience and diversity of knowledge itself.”
https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge