Name: Craigslist Founder Says Wikipedia is the Most Important Website
Uploaded: 2025-07-05T13:15:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Craigslist Founder Says Wikipedia is the Most Important Website' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Craigslist Founder Says Wikipedia is the Most Important Website' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-05. Transcript available.

so so what craigslist was kind of the the the stepchild of the tech industry in
a weird way
was it looked like that because i could imagine how jealous because here's
people putting billions
and millions of dollars into building this thing this new avenue and all these
venture capitalists
and stuff like that and then they all this advertising and here you are with
this basic
kind of peer-to-peer how can i offer something that could potentially help my
neighbor or connect
two neighbors that could use something yeah we've always been an outlier as one
person put it we're
one of the few uh un-gentrified sites on the net yeah um and i guess we uh like
it that way nothing
has not everything has to be expensive or fancy yeah to give credit to a site i
consider a
un-gentrified that's a wikipedia wikipedia is where facts go to live and in the
long run
wikipedia i think is the most important of all sites i work with them and even
in new york
i'm working with their local chapter to uh give classes wikipedia for beginners
really well when
you get to write an article or change an article that gives you a lot of power
well in a small way
to uh determine how people think of things you get to write history oh and some
of it's not true like
there's stuff on my wikipedia like attaching me to like a part of my fan like
um like my they have my
fan half my family members wrong on it and stuff and it like puts me in it it's
crazy i'm like all right
the deal unlike newspapers well they don't correct themselves normally
especially not in a big way
but in wikipedia you can do that and basically you uh can get a good uh
citation some evidence
of what's right and wrong and then send it to someone who knows how to edit it
and then they can do it they can do that oh dang and i gotta get in there yeah
you guys uh know how
to get hold of me okay and then i i know i can get hold of someone who can who
knows how to do the
edits at least i have not gone to the class yet okay and uh yeah the deal is
that the system isn't
perfect but it's better than anything anyone else has tried yeah that's true
and things do get fixed
it may not happen as fast as anyone wants um but again there's things uh let's
say in the uh
newspaper of record and things which i know are wrong and which have been
presented to them and
they're just not going to fix it yeah and that's and they don't want to uh i
don't understand the
reason they want to shape history sometimes you think well the deal is they uh
some you know they
were brought something which was wrong it was proven to be wrong and they they
say they weren't going
to be uh truth vigilantes and i i guess i uh disagree yeah yeah that's
interesting well that's a big
thing about information now it's like it's something i worry about with ai
because if there's and even just
the history of the web like things in the history of the web because people can
alter that over time
there's uh big problems with that now uh a number of ai systems are feeding on
the output of other ai
systems which could be hallucinating or it could be if you compromised uh yeah
well that's one way to do
that and i'd like the idea of uh really good ai replacing or supplementing
search but i uh um i worry about
that also because even if i just casually screw around i can uh get the ai
systems produce wrong information
and i talk about it with some of the people at these companies and hope that uh
they get it right
i do have a lot of hope for ai doing customer service because if it's done with
commitment if it's done
right um it could be done much better because sometimes like you call up for a
customer service
you get a call center someplace where they just don't know how to do it they
don't know and
i try to be kind to people who have been effectively sabotaged by their
management sometimes
i uh become less impatient than i should be yeah oh yeah oh you'll call a
customer service and they're
like we don't even know what you're talking about but they still answer the
phone i'm like who are you
yeah and yeah instead of complaining about that i'm trying to talk about it and
i am putting my money
where my mouth is like for consumer reports which i'm involved with and working
with a lot with the
magazine website yeah okay because they're trustworthy and the idea is that
yeah i would enjoy working with
an ai system which would be responsive and give me good information and even if
it can't maybe it would
kick it to a person who might have to do research but at least they would be
good at it i understood
Thank you.