If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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    This is going to be the Idiocratizing of the internet. AI is going to be training in itself with these unidentified posts and get dumber and dumber.

    Let’s hope no one lets it have access to anything important…

    It feels a little like how steel from before above ground nuclear testing, called low-background (or pre-war) steel because it isn’t contaminated is prized for building some sensors.

    Pre AI information need to be preserved, otherwise we might not really know if the info we’re seeking is fact based in any way.

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        9 months ago

        93/94 was when I first got AOL on a 14.4k modem. I’m one of those shitty users!

        We used to use gopher and college FTP sites to download warez as a freshman in HS, and then moved on to Hotline trackers.

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          I was too. The internet was never for normies or businesses and between the two of them they’ve managed to turn it into a complete dumpster fire.