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38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
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this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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remember kids, everything you post on the internet stays forever*
*unless it cannot be monetized anymore
Don't worry, it might still bubble up to the surface in the hallucinations of an AI.
You can't train an AI on data that's no longer in existence
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.
Really? Because I don't think my dick pic can be monetized
Sure it can. People will pay to not see it.
Maybe start a charity and raise money that way?
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.
I know a lot of people still have terrible fanfiction they wrote as teens on the internet somewhere, so the warning is very appropriate.
The WayBack Machine would like a word: https://web.archive.org/
Even the Wayback Machine has limits to what is available.
Oh, that stuff is out there somewhere... in a database
Or on a server hanging out in a landfill.