Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 fact based question (with an 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.

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  • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But the fact that it’s relatively easy to download and backup makes me confident that someone, somewhere, will rehost it should it go down. Hell, I’d even take a crack at it.

    It’s kind of the point of federation, too. An instance can go down but anyone who federated with them will still have that data.

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