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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later

www.pewresearch.org

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38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later

www.pewresearch.org

TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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When Online Content Disappears
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A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
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    remember kids, everything you post on the internet stays forever*

    *unless it cannot be monetized anymore

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      Everything you post has potential to remain forever even if it’s not monetized directly. Cautioning people about it makes sense now and has always made sense.

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        I know a lot of people still have terrible fanfiction they wrote as teens on the internet somewhere, so the warning is very appropriate.

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      The WayBack Machine would like a word: https://web.archive.org/

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        Even the Wayback Machine has limits to what is available.

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      Oh, that stuff is out there somewhere… in a database

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        Or on a server hanging out in a landfill.

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      Don’t worry, it might still bubble up to the surface in the hallucinations of an AI.

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        You can’t train an AI on data that’s no longer in existence

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          But a decade from now, there will be AI trained on data that will no longer exist. And many websites that GPT trained on probably don’t exist anymore.

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      Really? Because I don’t think my dick pic can be monetized

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        Sure it can. People will pay to not see it.

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        Maybe start a charity and raise money that way?

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