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Natsu • yesterday at 3:53 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

It's funny to think that pre-LLM archives are the new low-background steel.


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rc1 • yesterday at 10:05 PM

Ironically. Wikipedia already links that concept to low-background steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel#Cultural_...

progbits • yesterday at 4:10 PM

Krazam has a video about that.

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DonaldPShimoda • yesterday at 4:29 PM

Ooh, I like this way of thinking of it. Thanks for that!

adventured • yesterday at 4:11 PM

It certainly may place a very high value on archive.org over time thanks to their historical timestamping

mschuster91 • yesterday at 5:15 PM

Hence all the AI labs buying up and destroying physical books. Even "yellow press" stuff, pulp fiction, dime novels and whatnot "low quality" literature are a valuable source of how actual humans write.

I wouldn't even have much of a problem with it - if these labs would be fair enough to humanity as a whole to provide the raw scans after the process is completed, and if they would limit themselves to books that have been on the market for more than 20 years.

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