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Internet Archive update. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by TheOne@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 75 points 2 months ago

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

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

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

I never realized how valuable that data was

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 2 months ago

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

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 points 2 months ago

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