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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month 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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

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

I never realized how valuable that data was

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Who is behind it?