Not a coincidence public archives are disappearing at the same time unpolluted training data for LLMs & other content generation systems have become valuable. (even as we are told they have no value, so no one should get paid)
This is very ugly and we need to have a real conversation about preserving human history, expanding and archiving the body of human knowledge, attribution, and royalties.
Our leadership is too craven and not educated enough in these matters to do it.
I know it's cliche to say so, but it does feel like how the setting of 1984 could have started, as official records get erased and then "someone" keeps rewriting history to fit the current narrative. Only this time, it's not a government employee but a private algorithm.
@futurebird in 2010, Nicaragua wanted to reclaim an island that was from Costa Rica because the limits were different in Google Maps than in the treary of limits between those countries. The dispute lasted 5 years and was finally solved in favor of Costa Rica in an international court. Corporations shouldn't define country limits or what is part of history. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2010/11/101110_nicaragua_costa_rica_google_mapas_oea_az