The Internet Archive Now Captures AI-Generated Content (Including Google's AI Overviews)

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/16/1852218/the-internet-archive-now-captures-ai-generated-content-including-googles-ai-overviews

CNN profiled the non-profit Internet Archive today — and included this tidbit about how they archive parts of the internet that are now “tucked in conversations with AI chatbots.”

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can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

librarians and software engineers, are experimenting with ways to preserve how people get their news from chatbots by coming up with hundreds of questions and prompts each day based on the news, and recording both the queries and outputs, [says Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham].

That’s a good idea.

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- scintilla@crust.piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  When we get past this historians of the future will be able to use this to figure out what happened here.
  
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  - can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    When
    
    An optimist, I like that, never lose it.
    
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