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Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record (www.eff.org)
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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It existing somewhere is better than nothing, though. Internet archive on the other hand, that one is a lot harder.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yes of course

But every single scrap of information in Wikipedia exists somewhere else

Its value is twofold and exclusively these two when you boil everything down:

  • It is enough information to answer any question with an empirical answer
  • It is available to anyone on the planet with ease and without cost

There's very little else we've created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.