Internet Archive update.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 1y (9 replies)

I'm curious if this was some kind of DDOS, or if someone was trying to use it to train AI and was pulling everything to make a local copy

About the only way to ensure you're not training AI on bots, is to use "old internet" when bots were more obvious

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 45 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Someone already announced on X that they took the archive down because "NATO bad"

Yeah, but that's the same as someone writing on a bathroom stall at this point.

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org · 38 pts · 1y (3 replies)

use "old internet" when bots were more obvious

This is going to become a valued commodity like pre-atomic low background steel, isn't it?

And it's mostly all in one place...

I never realized how valuable that data was

It already is as far as I know. I've heard before that ChatGPT is strictly trained on data from before, like 2018 or so for this reason.

So the litmus test for a bot is to ask if it's skibidy?

muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Nice theory but it was some political bullshit group who did it for some bullshit reason. Odds are it'll turn out to be some Russian funded shit.

echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Right but they've achieved absolutely nothing other than being mildly annoying. Doesn't really seem like it would be worth funding.

abcd@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y

That’s not entirely correct: One achievement was me donating money to the IA after this nonsense 😁

Fediverse source

Who is behind it?