[LeoPanthera]

In late 2021 / early 2022 I got scared about the incoming consequences of LLMs and downloaded all the "Kiwix" archives I could find, including Wikipedia, a bunch of other Wikimedia sites, Stack Overflow, etc.

I'm pretty glad that I did. I'm going to hold onto them indefinitely. They have become the "low background steel" of text.

[samwillis]

I really like that analogy.

For anyone curious what low background steel is, it's steel that was made before the first atomic bombs were tested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

[tivert]

> In late 2021 / early 2022 I got scared about the incoming consequences of LLMs and downloaded all the "Kiwix" archives I could find, including Wikipedia, a bunch of other Wikimedia sites, Stack Overflow, etc.

> I'm pretty glad that I did. I'm going to hold onto them indefinitely. They have become the "low background steel" of text.

Also, ironically, the Pushshift reddit dumps (still available via torrent), before they were taken down. The exact time Reddit shut down the API to sell their data for AI training is also exactly the time it started to become less valuable for that.

I believe a lot of subreddits started implementing protest moderation policies after reddit came down on the blackout. IMHO, they should implement rules like "no posts unless it's a ChatGPT hallucination."

[bitcoinmoney]

Link to the torrent for science ?