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Nobody intended "search engines" to be a repository of cultural memory. They became that because they were built on content and information that encompassed cultural memory, and people used them for that purpose. How many times have you told someone to Google that instead of giving them a URL?

Training sets are currently built on the same information, and now chatbots are a different way to query for that information. So, in the same way as with search engines, chatbots have become another repository of cultural memory.

At some time in the future, people will come to believe that if it's not in a search engine or a chatbot, it doesn't exist, which to me is why it's vital to put everything we know into a training set in addition to archiving it someplace that will survive a Carrington-level blast from the sun.

IMO, making multiple copies of archives of everything we know supersedes copyright.



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