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
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.
Right but they’ve achieved absolutely nothing other than being mildly annoying. Doesn’t really seem like it would be worth funding.
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?
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.
Someone already announced on X that they took the archive down because “NATO bad”
Who is behind it?
https://mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle/113304263804387160
Fediverse source
